Work: executive / decisive
These are tasks that you can finish and be done with – at least for a time. An annual report, paying a bill, creating a… Read More »Work: executive / decisive
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Parallel processing: finding the right people
In computers, parallel processing is the processing of program instructions by dividing them among multiple processors with the objective of running a program in less time. TechTarget .… Read More »Parallel processing: finding the right people
In their hands
Make something people can use. Put it in their hands. See what happens. If they’re eager to pay – attention, time, money – you’re onto… Read More »In their hands
Work: generative
This is work that creates possibilities. It’s open ended, and while it might close some avenues down it generates even more new options, opportunities, connections… Read More »Work: generative
The last ten minutes…
…before you leave the house is not the time to start moving faster. Strange things happen to time in the last ten, and the minutes… Read More »The last ten minutes…
Organisational friction
is caused by things in your working day that you live with or work around but that sap your time, energy or attention and make… Read More »Organisational friction
The trampoline: networks, standards and freedom
The network effect is powerful, and a source of tremendous value, and we need to understand how it works. Networks depend on standardisation – a… Read More »The trampoline: networks, standards and freedom
Network opportunities
One telephone – in the whole world – is useless. Who would you call? The more telephones there are – and especially the more telephones… Read More »Network opportunities
Learning between the lines
You can’t ever just teach one thing. Whether we like it or not there’s always other stuff going on: we’re teaching what we think of our students,… Read More »Learning between the lines
Education for the future (5): tools and the wielder
Recap: a foundation for life Education – formal education at least – is concerned with equipping people with tools: skills, knowledge and ideas that will… Read More »Education for the future (5): tools and the wielder