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Mindfulness is… “the power tool that all the other literacies depend upon”
(Howard Rheingold, Net Smart)
At School (in the year 2000) by Jean Marc Cote, 1899
Isolation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_acvfJQO0
“The future of schools lies in networks rather than hierarchies, in lateral rather than vertical organisations. Networks cannot be managed the same way that hierarchies are managed. Social networking is a different way of organising.” (Professor Richard Elmore)
Explicitly teaching people to work in teams
“The knowledge-based, twenty-first-century organization depends on cross-disciplinary collaboration, flattened hierarchies, and continuous innovation”
Amy Edmondson
The Race
• 400-600 miles, non-stop Primal Quest Adventure Race
• Multi-disciplinary, expert teams • Unknown terrain, multiple routes• Challenges: mental and physical exhaustion,
navigational errors, injury• 75-95 teams each year• 55% of teams do not finish• Avg age=37, Avg exp=5.5 yrs• $250,000 purse
Map of Race
Day 1-2
Day 4-5
2004 Race Overview
50%
70% Conditional Claims
Assertive Claims
TeamPerformance
HighLow
30%
How do claims of knowing vary across teams?
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“Workers learn more in the coffee room than in the classroom. They discover how to do their jobs through informal learning: talking, observing others, trial-and-error, and simply working with people in the know.” (Jay Cross)
Become more intentional about informal learning
“The successful organization of the future will have two organizational structures: a Hierarchy, and a more teaming, egalitarian, and adaptive Network” (Kotter, 2014).
Design for flexibility and responsiveness
Foster diverse connections
Map of Knowledge from Los Alamos National Lab
Devolve decision making
Jelmer Evers, Changing Education From the Ground Up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57Pp_keHKdY
Embrace complexity
Craft a narrative
The Speech that Made Obama President: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFPwDe22CoY
Leading Networks
1. Are we explicitly teaching people to work in teams? 2. Are we becoming more intentional about informal learning?3. Are we designing for flexibility and responsiveness? 4. Are we fostering diverse connections? 5. Are we devolving decision-making? 6. Are we embracing complexity? 7. Are we crafting a narrative, a compelling case for change?
“There is clear consensus that the future now emerging will be extremely different from anything
we have ever known in the past. It is a difference, not of degree, but of kind.”
Two Blind Men Crossing a Log Bridge
A Zen ink painting from Hakuin Ekaku (1685-1768)
The Martian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej3ioOneTy8
