If Future Thinking is so important why aren’t we teaching it?
It was Ricardo Semler who once said something like, “Every company should hire someone who’s job it is to look out the window.” I’ve always thought that would be nice work if you can get it 🙂 Business needs people who are bringing the outside...
How we’re using Bots to change how we do Learning and Development
Re-think and innovate how we execute Learning and Development! That was the brief from a client. A client who had these challenges….. Getting our people into a training room isn’t working as well as it used to. Feedback from our people and the business is that too...
If You Build It, Will They Come? – AI and Bots
In the late eighties, the Oscar Nominated movie ‘Field of Dreams‘ posed an interesting philosophical question, in the form of a voice that Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner), an Iowa farmer kept hearing over and over again, “If you build it, they will...
The Rise of Résumé Building and the Decline of Play
My interest in Play is in the realisation of improved creativity and innovation, primarily in the workplace. However, one cannot avoid discussing both the importance of and decline in Play, with regards to children, if you’re going to describe the context we...
There Is No Evidence That Homework Improves Academic Performance
If research shows that the primary reason children are given homework is not being achieved, surely we need to take a serious look at why we continue to issue it, and if we can’t find a good reason to carry on, then we must stop it all together? This seems like...
