Matchbook Learning

Coach, what’s the play?

May 12, 2013 - Sajan George

The debate around teachers and public education’s challenges is primed with rhetoric, conflict, intense emotion and lack of unity. On the one side, policy makers, school...

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall - Part II

May 06, 2013 - Sajan George

So how do we apply the leadership concepts of vision, role model and recognition that Robert Steven Kaplan outlined in his great book “What to Ask the Person in the Mirror”?...

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall - Part I

May 06, 2013 - Sajan George

Robert Steven Kaplan, Harvard Business School Professor and co-chairman of Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, former vice-chairman of the Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. in his recent...

Lean & Mean - Part II

April 28, 2013 - Sajan George

In my last update, I referenced how Stanford & University of California Berkeley lecturer Steve Blank in the Harvard Business Review May 2013 article “Why the Lean Start-Up...

Lean & Mean - Part I

April 24, 2013 - Sajan George

Launching a start-up is risky, regardless of industry. 75% of all start-ups fail. Period. Faint of heart need not apply. The collateral damage of time, money,...

Reinvention

April 03, 2013 - Sajan George

Harvard Education Specialist Tony Wagner has a new book out called “Creating Innovators: The Making of Innovators Who Will Change the World”. I have ordered it but not...

From Hole in the Wall to School in the Cloud

February 28, 2013 - Sajan George

Education Researcher Sugata Mitra is the winner of the 2013 TED Prize. He will use his $1M prize to build a school in the cloud, accessible by any student, anywhere,...

Tweet that!

February 23, 2013 - Sajan George

I am about to talk about Twitter but before I do, I must confess that I do not have a Twitter account. I realize that my confession may be conjuring images of a Neanderthal...

Environment, Motivation and Persuasion

February 20, 2013 - Sajan George

Daniel Pink is one of my favorite authors. His last 3 books were so influential in framing my perspective from social science research around 3 key dimensions of the learning...

Super Bowl

February 12, 2013 - Sajan George

We recently witnessed our nation’s single most watched annual sporting event, the Super Bowl. Regardless of whether your team won or not, or whether you are a casual fan or...