Archive for the 'Learning' Category

5 Steps of Entrepreneurial Growth

Friday, January 8th, 2010

I defined 5 steps in the entrepreneurial journey that I think most people go through. The distribution is a pyramid and only a small percentage of people make it through each stage.
(1) No Desire —intrinsic motivation suppressed (usually by the school system) (2) Desire to make an impact and be entrepreneurial, but uncertainty about how [...]

The T Model: A framework for learning, work, personal growth and non-linear career progression

Saturday, December 26th, 2009

The T Model is a framework I made to describe how to most effectively approach learning, work, and non-linear career progression.
In the T Model you alternate between a broad, horizontal phase and a deep, vertical phase, (though it’s actually an upside-down T because starting with the horizontal phase is a must) . In the broad, [...]

What I’ve Been Up To At Palomar5

Sunday, November 15th, 2009

Originally posted on the Sandbox Blog

This blog post is part 2 of the Sandbox Network ‘Palomar 5′ series: a six week innovation camp in Berlin from 9 October – 24 November 2009. To follow the progress of the conference, you can view the official Palomar 5 blog. Alternatively, if you are on twitter, follow hashtag [...]

Video From My World Future Society Speech

Saturday, September 12th, 2009

Long awaited, I finally have the video after wrangling with file format difficulties, technical workarounds and trips that left my time in front of the computer fragmented.
This is only my 2nd or 3rd public speech I’ve given, excluding participation on panels, but I hope to do more in the future. Unfortunately due to time constraints [...]

When Exposing Yourself To New Interesting Things, Make It Closely Related To Your Core Skills

Monday, August 24th, 2009

Spend 80% of your time on your passions, improving your core skills. There are plenty of things you can find that simply meet the “interesting” criteria.
The argument that colleges expose you to things you wouldn’t otherwise be exposed to is not that compelling a value proposition because it is not very hard to find new [...]

Ask Why Not What & Its Role In Resolving Uncertainty

Friday, August 21st, 2009

Most people only ask the “what” questions. What are you doing lately? What’s up? What did you do yesterday? What are you going to do this summer? What are you studying? It takes a rare breed of person to ask the “why” and “how” questions.
The “why” and “how” questions are much more interesting and elevated. [...]

Longer Incubation Periods

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

On Thursday Morning, I was fortunate enough to sit down with Alan Webber over an early morning coffee, who founded Fast Company over a decade ago.
We were talking about some of the skills young people should have in order to launch successful ventures.
Alan noted that while someone is trying to get a startup going there [...]

Making Sense of the Big Shift – Corporations Are Failing At Talent Development and Universities Are Doing No Better

Saturday, August 15th, 2009

I attended the San Francisco Supernova Mixer Tuesday night, where John Hagel and John Seely Brown from Deloitte’s Center for the Edge presented their research on the Big Shift– “a major new effort to track the real impacts of what we call the Network Age. ” My copious notes on their talk are posted [...]

The Big Shift: An Evening with John Seely Brown and John Hagel

Saturday, August 15th, 2009

From Eventbrite:

We’re delighted to launch our first 2009 Supernova Mixer event at Wharton Ι SF Campus on Tuesday, August 11, 5:30pm – 7:30pm. Please join us for a lively conversation with Deloitte’s John Hagel and John Seely Brown (Center for the Edge) on The Shift Index — a major new effort to track the real [...]

Romanticize Doing NOT Learning. Learning Is Just a Byproduct

Thursday, August 13th, 2009

I’m actually annoyed learning is romanticized so much. I have an image of my head of a woman  with a fashionable side-bag full of books from university who purrs in a spanish european accent, “I just love learning!” Fine. That’s better not loving learning. But I find many people are content to just continue learning [...]