Humans are strongly motivated by two forces: love and money*. When pursuing change and seeking to better things we often look at ways to gain more money as the solution, but what about love? What if we fell in love with our challenge? (*Money can be a proxy for security, safety, and opportunity.) Love as …
Change through design is the fundamental feature of innovation. This page and the innovation toolkit that it’s a part of are one of the ways we seek to share our experience of innovation. Innovation is very natural, but also something we can learn. To provide alternative ways to learn about innovation and change-making we’ve launched …
Self-knowledge is a great asset, however the reason we often hire an external consultant is because we know a part of ourself so well that it becomes difficult to see other parts of who we are. We obviously have a bias toward the role of external consultants because that’s what we do, but we also …
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If learning is a critical part of what your organization needs to survive and thrive, why do you not have a Chief Learning Officer? We look at why you should.
Evaluative thinking is at the heart of evaluation, yet it’s remarkably challenging to do in practice. To help strengthen those evaluative neural pathways, we offer some questions to aid you in developing your evaluative thinking skills. To begin, let’s first look at this odd concept of ‘evaluative thinking’. Tom Grayson’s recent post on the AEA …
