Education

Following up yesterday's testimonial, an attendee, Amy, from my seminar a week and a half ago, wrote about applying what she learned days after the seminar and seeing results. I really enjoyed the seminar - it gave me a great deal to think about (and apply). In fact, I am hiring an Associate for my team and approaching it entirely differently based on your framework. The interview I had recently in which I spent more of the time understanding his deep motivations was more enjoyable that interviews I've had in the past. Probing in the way you suggest - and getting closer to understanding the person - was a terrific starting point to seeing whether we would be well suited to working together and whether…

Following up yesterday's post on Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz's talk and my Q&A with him... He spoke on leadership and ethics. I felt honored and flattered for him to describe my question as "A great question, really the core question." He spoke mainly about the many corporate decisions business and political leaders made that hurt many people and the systems that enabled them, as well as the beliefs and assumptions that also enabled them. For the decisions, think of the predatory lending leading to the recent great recession, schemes pharmaceutical companies made to make creating generic drugs impossible, BP in the gulf, or any number of other corporate or government acts that resulted in people dying, losing their homes, or further inequality. For the…

If you lead, coach, or mentor, knowing effective teaching methods help you. People have been learning to teach for thousands of years, so we stand to learn from them. I recently attended a phenomenal conference on education called EduCon in Philadelphia, co-hosted by longtime friend Chris Lehmann, who founded The Science Leadership Academy, which ranks as one of the most inspirational educational communities I've participated in, including several Ivy-League universities. I had the chance to get a crash course in "inquiry-driven project-based learning," a style of teaching that focuses on students first, recognizes testing often comes at the cost of learning, and puts engaging the student at the forefront of educating them. It asks the teacher to care about the student and plan teaching with…

I want to thank all the seminar attendees and organizers for a fantastic experience at Saturday's seminar "How to Lead People So They Want You to Lead Them Again." I had given that seminar several times before, but this was my first with fifty people in a room at capacity. Everyone seemed attentive, genuinely interested, and open to experimenting. I only know other people's perspectives what they tell me, but everybody who spoke afterward found the seminar valuable, useful, and engaging. From my perspective, the exercises, simple and brief as they were, gave the most value. That's generally the case -- that people learn the most from exercises -- and I put more and more focus into that part of a seminar all the time.…

With bittersweet feelings, I report that Saturday's seminar, "How to Lead People So They Want You to Lead Them Again," is at capacity for the venue. I expect we'll book future seminars on the topic. I look forward to seeing everyone there. Previous sessions have gotten great reviews. I plan to deliver a great seminar tomorrow.