Angela Maiers (@AngelaMaiers)
Jean Russell (@NurtureGirl)
Peter Vander Auwera (@petervan)
Bob Kegan also provides a useful lens for change. He is a developmental psychologist and he argues that the demands of living and working in the 21st Century are unlike anything expected of humans ever before. He talks about how a ‘socialised mind’ (doing as you are told) has been sufficient for most adults to cope in the past, yet today we need more and more adults to develop what he terms a ‘self-authoring’ mind. This change cannot be achieved through training or workshops and it is only likely to be achieved through one on one coaching/mentoring, close collaborative groups, and reflection. He uses the metaphor of a bridge, where it is incumbent upon those over the bridge to head back onto the bridge and hold out a hand to help others take the steps to get on the bridge themselves.
I think Ben Jones nailed a few things in this blog post when he wrote about change not occurring via keynote speakers earning $10,000 a pop, but through people identifying a need within their area of responsibility, finding a mentor or coach, and then proceeding to incrementally improve things.
whitby..
learning compulsory
attendance voluntary
Mitchell Squires (@MitchSquires)
- Media expert and prognosticator Clay Shirky likes to say that "institutions tend to preserve the problems they were created to solve."
- Thomas Friedman has written recently that "big breakthroughs happen when what is suddenly possible meets what is desperately necessary."
- David Theo Goldberg and I (we cofounded HASTAC together in 2002) have said, in the Future of Thinking, that "institutions are mobilizing networks.
Monique Elwell (@MoniqueElwell)
SARAH GREEN: But then, the framing question that you've been giving is who do you want your customers to become. And you've talked about designing customers. So which is it? Are you just recognizing what they want? Or are you actively molding them?
MICHAEL SCHRAGE: Ah, well, I think that is-- if you'll forgive me for saying this-- a brilliant question. If you gave me the choice as an entrepreneur between identifying what customers seem to be predisposed to becoming and innovating to enable, that seems to be a very good innovation path.
But let's say you want to transform your customer. Let's say you're somebody like, oh, let's pull a name out of a hat, Steve Jobs or Sergey Brin and Larry Page from Google. Then, you're using your technology competence, your technological superiority, to transform a customer. ....
You have a vision of the technology that transcends what the customer could think or know that they want.
But I am going to proceed under the happy and hopeful assumption that, on balance, the innovators I'm addressing in this book are predisposed to being ethical and moral when they make a value offering to transform their customers. And let's also be fair. Reasonable people can disagree on issues of morals and ethics in certain commercial spheres.
David Sanders (@intmf)
don't wait for people to give you permission - they will dawdle..
Fred Bartels (@fredbartels)
I hope they do a lot of nothing. People get addicted to doing “something”.
When you are capable of actually doing nothing (not so easy after decades of “something addiction”), there’s a deep well that springs up, and fills every corner of you, crowding at the anxieties, the fears, the pressures put on you from government jobs colleagues bosses friends family.
I, and the many people who email me, seem to have a funny habit: We repeatedly leave and give up the things that most people work so hard to achieve. Good schools. Scholarships. Traditional jobs. Money. We don’t believe in sunk costs. If that sounds like you, then you’re probably a perpetual drop out too. Embrace it. I have.
I know that I will do it again and again in my life. Why? Because every time I do, things get better. The trial by fire works. It’s the future. The institutions we have built to prop us up seem mostly to hold creative and forward thinking people back. College is great, but it is slow and routine. Corporations can do great things, but fulfilling individuals is not one of them. Money is important but it can also be an addiction. Accomplishments like a degree or a job are not an end, they are means to an end. I’m so glad I learned that.
Space is recoverable. The status of a college degree, the income from a job—recoverable. Time is not. This time you have now is it. You will not get it back.
It’s about not needing a piece of paper or other people’s validation to know you have what it takes and are worth betting on. This is your life, I hope you take control and get everything you can out of it.
Inside Higher Ed (@insidehighered)Part of the reason companies can’t find applicants who are prepared to enter manufacturing is that relatively few college students are interested in the industry, often because they have outdated ideas about it and think the jobs are dirty, menial and probably dead-ends. So the college decided to create a stackable, and portable, system of credentials where students can give manufacturing a whirl and “find out if they really like it,” Ender said.
Clay Shirky (@cshirky)
Edna Sackson (@whatedsaid)
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