I was probably nine or ten years old and my parents had dragged me off to church as they usually did on Sunday mornings. After an hour in what was called Sunday School, singing, learning Bible verses, and going off to class with a small group of other kids my same age, we were invited
I watched two garden spiders, connected by the same web, work their magic. I sat there in amazement as they worked to restore and expand their web, eat or store a few insects along the way that had signaled their arrival and entrapment. You have no doubt seen a spider scamper across a few strands
When these conditions are present to any significant degree, you and your team will definitely be blocked from being effective and productive. These three obstacles are closely related through a common factor that, if dealt with separately, could resolve all three. That common factor is FEAR. Patrick Lencioni and Kensuke Okabayashi only use the word
I am indebted to the Knight Foundation and Eric Newton for their presentation in November, 2013, to a group of Dutch journalists in Amsterdam. The content regarding K-12 schools is mine and I take responsibility for any mistakes, misunderstanding or errors in laying out a design for these kinds of schools* Gary R. Gruber, Ph.D.
Keep learning alive – Commit to becoming a life-long learner and whether or not you are an early adopter, consider how the world has changed and you along with it. If you are not growing and changing you are falling behind because to stand still is to lose ground. You can participate in learning challenges
The thoughts below come from the notion of fear and faith being perfectly correlated, inversely. The more you have of one, the less you have of the other. Paralyzed by FEAR Fear of admitting failure or of having made a mistake Fear of losing what is most important Fear of what others think or
