Why Students Need to Learn Thinking Skills Now...More Than Ever
This post was adapted from Thinking At Every Desk. While knowledge and thinking skills have always been important, globalization makes them more criti…
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Teach Your Child to Think
There are moments in life when we instinctively know that our life is changing and that a corollary transformation of ourselves is underway. I am sure…
Culture with Consequences
This post is an excerpt from Chapter 6 of Flock Not Clock. By definition, all groups (including organizational members) are characterized by culture(s…
Core Tenets of Organizational Culture
This post is an excerpt from Chapter 6 of Flock Not Clock. Members of your organization will share a large number of mental models, all of varying imp…
Learn by Example
One of the specific and practical things you can do to build a culture of mental models is to get the entire leadership team to assume another as lead…
The Power of Sharing Mental Models: Wow Stories
"I am empowered to create unique, memorable and personal experiences for our guests." This simple employee statement (number 3 on the Ritz-Carlton’s l…
Failure Is Feedback
This post is adapted from Chapter 5 of Flock Not Clock. Humans are adept learners: we even learn when things go bad. If at first you don’t succeed, fa…
Because, Science
Mental models evolve because of the ST-DSRP Loop. That's systems thinking. That's human learning. That's science. All models are wrong but some are us…
Harness the Power of Mental Models
This post is an excerpt from Chapter 5 of Flock Not Clock. An organization has to learn to survive. But in order for an organization to learn, its peo…
Dying to Be Barbie
This post is an excerpt from Chapter 5 of Flock Not Clock. Mental models can be simple or wildly complex. They can describe important or unimportant p…
Build a Culture of Learning by Capacity Hacking
This post is an excerpt from Chapter 4 of Flock Not Clock. As a leader, you want to build into your culture an appreciation of and proclivity for cons…
Slider: What Got You Here Won't Get You There: An Interview With Dr. Derek Cabrera
This post is part on an ongoing series. To see more, check out the Sliders tag. Staff: You recently mentioned a slider called “What Got You Here Won't…