Teach, Role Model or Get out of the Way

When we consider the influence of others on our learning, there are two kinds of people who are critically important to learn from: role models and teachers.  Role models are those who DO things in a way that we aspire to do them ourselves.  Sometimes we...

Corporate Fight Club

When was the last time you were passionate enough about an issue, idea or solution to fight for it?  I’m not talking passive, re-frame your argument and try again fighting but finger-waving, red-faced, raised-voices fighting (you can replace...

Popularity is Suffocating Talent

I have in the past professed my love of Tim Tebow on this blog.  What I loved about Tebow last year was that he represented a disruption of the status quo and a poke in the eye to “the experts.”  Tebow’s play illustrated that there might be...

Leapfrogging over Best Practices

Recently, the New World of Work blog ran a post about the developing nations of Africa that was really intriguing.  In talking about the physical infastructure of an entire country, the author suggests that “infrastructure can be hacked.”...
Jason Lauritsen