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Ken Robinson on Creativity

April 19, 2024

The late Sir Kenneth Robinson (March 1950-August 2020) was a British author, speaker and international advisor on education in the arts to government, non-profits, education and arts bodies. He was Director of the Arts in Schools Project (1985–89) and Professor…

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Kenneth Robinson on Creativity

August 27, 2022

The late Sir Kenneth Robinson (March 1950-August 2020) was a British author, speaker and international advisor on education in the arts to government, non-profits, education and arts bodies. He was Director of the Arts in Schools Project (1985–89) and Professor…

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Much anew about “nudging”

October 17, 2021

Here is an excerpt from an interview of Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler by Roberta Fusaro and Julia Sperling-Magro for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out others, learn more about the…

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Nudge: A book review by Bob Morris

October 5, 2021

Nudge: The Final Edition Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein Penguin Books (August 2021) “Letting the other chap have it your way.” This is an updated and revised version of a book first published in 2008. The first four…

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Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein on Common Biases

September 26, 2021

In Nudge: The Final Edition, Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein argue that people have evolved to make snap decisions in a wide variety of areas in order to save time and mental energy—we’re more likely to survive if we rely on…

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Ideal role models for lifelong learners

October 28, 2020

In The Genius of Birds, Jennifer Ackerman observes: “Birds learn. They solve new problems and invent novel solutions to old ones. They make and use tools. They count. They copy behaviors from one another. They remember where they put things.”…

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Kenneth Robinson on Creativity

August 25, 2020

The late Sir Kenneth Robinson (March 1950-August 2020) was a British author, speaker and international advisor on education in the arts to government, non-profits, education and arts bodies. He was Director of the Arts in Schools Project (1985–89) and Professor…

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The Signal and the Noise: A book review by Bob Morris

February 4, 2019

The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail–but Some Don’t Nate Silver Penguin Books (2015) How and why, more often than not, “human judgment is intrinsically fallible” This book was first published in 2012, at a time when…

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Ken Robinson on creativity

August 5, 2018

The late Sir Kenneth Robinson (March 1950-August 2020) was a British author, speaker and international advisor on education in the arts to government, non-profits, education and arts bodies. He was Director of the Arts in Schools Project (1985–89) and Professor…

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What Is Disruptive Innovation?

November 25, 2015

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor, and Rory McDonald for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain…

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