Entering the Era of Smart Study Groups
I have been interested in education since I taught my first Sunday School class when I was in 6th grade. Teaching from the book (as I was told)…
Advanced Collaboration: Student Presentations
My daughter is in second grade. For her research project this quarter, she was tasked with creating and giving a presentation. Asking to borrow my…
This audacious study will track 10,000 New Yorkers' every move for 20 years
Paul Glimcher is on the verge of launching an absurdly ambitious project in social science. The concept is simple, but the scope is spectacularly…
How Music Affects Your Brain (Plus 11 Artists To Listen To At Work)
Music, your brain and emotions: the general stuff
How organisations enshrine collective stupidity and employees are rewarded for checking their brains at the office door
We found many ways that all kinds of organisations positively encouraged intelligent people not to fully use their intelligence. There were rules and…
Future of AI learning
The need for creating meticulously designed training programs will be gone — (Some compliance programs may still be around.) Communities of…
The future of business is that the customer is the labor and the capital
In the end, we are all here for each other. Many people in the business world don’t understand that. Not that they disagree: they just don’t get it.…
Reid Hoffman on Future of Networks
Today, all this holds true. But how you achieve this competitive edge has shifted. We've entered what I call the Networked Age: an era where what you…
“Will this be on the test?” Rethinking online education
The altMBA, the course we now run, has some surprising elements:
Betacode - networks and weirarchy research papers
Special Edition Paper - Turn Your Company Outside-In!, part I+II. A paper on Cell Structure Design