The option is to focus more than ever on three core strategy questions that can help provide us with focus and stability even as the turbulence increases around us – and help us to prioritize where we need to respond and where we don’t. That’s why it’s more critical than ever to be able to answer this question clearly and compellingly, for ourselves and the people we want to reach. This is a relatively new, but increasingly important, strategic question. MORE
” So, it’s 1982 and you have a programming question. I left a message along the lines of “I’m a random stranger with a basic question about a programming language you probably never heard of, so would you mind calling me back? MORE
As part of an initiative for ASTD’s upcoming International Conference and Exposition , I was filmed as I responded to 10 questions around mobile (if you’re there, hope to hear how it goes) from Tony Bingham (he came in via conference call). MORE
I was asked the following questions after my presentation to CZ Course RVP_VT21 yesterday: (Elements of Coop.) Having said that - there is a subtext to this question which suggests that content needs to be organized, the best content selected, and a mechanism put in place to ensure that people follow and pay attention to this content. Finally, the question addresses the idea of a purpose of being to 'win some recognition'. MORE
Recently I received a series of provocative questions from a reader, and I thought it might be fruitful to release those answers in this space. On occasion, I receive emails and requests to meet regarding the contents of FLAT ARMY. I try to answer those requests as best I can. MORE
Teaching forces you to take a fresh look at the subjects you are covering, so I find myself revisiting questions I’ve long been thinking about: What is the essence of innovation in the digital economy and how does it differ from the industrial age innovation of the past two hundred years? MORE
Because I thought Pink Blog readers would find the book intriguing, I asked Fisman (he teaches at Columbia) and Sullivan (he’s editorial director of Harvard Business Review Press) to answer some questions. * * *. This really builds on our answer to the third question. MORE
Because I thought Pink Blog readers would find the book intriguing, I asked Fisman (he teaches at Columbia) and Sullivan (he’s editorial director of Harvard Business Review Press) to answer some questions. * * *. This really builds on our answer to the third question. MORE
The problem is to know what questions to ask.”. The question is: how do we shape our structures for tomorrow? MORE
Because his book is so interesting, I asked him to answer a few questions for Pink Blog readers. * * *. First we had IQ. Next came EQ. Now, Bruce Nussbaum introduces CQ — Creative Intelligence. MORE
Because I know Pink Blog readers love the sort of actionable social science found in this book, I figured out Heidi Halvorson’s and Higgins’s approaches (they’re both promotion-focused) and convinced them they had a lot to gain from answering some questions. * * *. MORE
I’ve spent just over a month on Quora , the so-called site that hosts a “ continually improving collection of questions and answers created, edited, and organized by everyone who uses it.”. Opinions, not answers, to an open-ended question. It’s a Question and Opinion site. MORE
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How can employees further strengthen their personal purpose? Personal purpose, in essence, is a lifetime journey. Many individuals make the mistake of. believing once they “find themselves” there is no need to further develop or strengthen their. personal purpose. MORE
Twitter has moved from asking ‘what are you doing now?’ ’ to ‘what’s happening?’, ’, and now describes itself as an ‘ information network ‘ The Twitter News Network is a manifestation of the global brain , in which we create value for others by contributing to the visibility and availability of high-value information. MORE
I received a flurry of questions on some articles on my website yesterday, questions from students at Vancouver Island University. So the question is, in all four scenarios, not how we can eliminate competition and foster an attitude of collaboration, but rather, what degree of competition is appropriate in such scenarios, and how does the practice of sharing resources reconcile with that degree of competition. So that's my first reaction to the question. MORE
Why progress matters: 6 questions for Harvard’s Teresa Amabile Here’s a tip for rounding out your summer reading. I asked Amabile if she’d answer some questions for Pink Blog readers about her book and her insights. Dan Pink. Contact. Follow Dan on Twitter. About Dan. MORE
I haven’t seen that question asked yet. Having both iPhone and Android devices in the household, I’ve been struck for some time by the absence of two Google Maps features on the iPhone that appear on the Android. One is adaptive turn-by-turn directions (the “recalculating” thing that good GPSes, like those of Garmin, Magellan and Tom-Tom, have always done) when you go off the original course. MORE
Some of the questions we’re looking at are on the slide. These are the same kinds of questions we have been asking about online learning but now we have a broader platform to do that on. Question: Does the Gates foundation fund X? Summary of a presentation from Stacey L. MORE
Other questions to consider: Does the organization treat everyone as leaders, or, is it rife with command and control tendencies, using ‘managers’ as a basis to carry out top-down objectives? MORE
10 lessons for Giving Days, and one question: How can we make them more sustainable? With those questions in mind, Knight commissioned the consulting firm Third Plateau to evaluate the 18 Giving Days the foundation supports. Click to see the full infographic. MORE
For example, the session opened with a discussion of public versus research libraries (with the “versus&# thrown into immediate question). See the next question.). Which brings me to the final question I left wondering about: How disruptive should the DPLA be? I got to attend the Digital Public Library of America ‘s first workshop yesterday. It was an amazing experience that left me with the best kind of headache: Too much to think about! MORE
A few days ago I tweeted a question about why Peter Senge never seemed to be mentioned in learning circles along with folks like Bloom, Gagne, and Kirkpatrick. : #crowdbooster told me that I was RT'd 7 times on that tweet and reached a potential audience of about 18,000 people. MORE
Because I know Pink Blog readers love the sort of actionable social science found in this book, I figured out Heidi Halvorson’s and Higgins’s approaches (they’re both promotion-focused) and convinced them they had a lot to gain from answering some questions. * * *. MORE
A question: We’re going to be arguing forever about the role and importance of social media in the Egyptian revolution, but I want to ask a smaller question: Would the Egyptian Revolution been leaderless without the presence of social media? I ask this as a genuine question. This is such a miraculous day for our sisters and brothers in Egypt. MORE
Lately I’ve been digging into this broad question of how of we move people and I consulted a fascinating book I’d read several months ago titled Instant Influence: How to Get Anyone to Do Anything – Fast! You probably respond with a perfectly rational question like, “Why not?” Unfortunately, I’ve learned that rational questions are ineffective for motivating resistant people. Instead I’ve found that irrational questions actually motivate people better. MORE
For the last couple of years, he’s tried to answer that question by hanging out with the best talent spotters in the world – the U.S. In 4 questions you got to the heart of the matter and the answers are worth GOLD. Love these questions and excerpts. Dan Pink. Contact. MORE
The big question is: What do we do if and when our old mechanisms for coping with inequality break down? Pursuit of Everything: Question everything. Here are some of the observations and insights that were shared via social media during the past week or two. MORE
Because the book is so relevant to the issues many of us confront, I asked Saul to answer a few questions for Pink Blog readers: You start off your book by saying “The goal for all leaders is to avoid being netflixed.” My pal Saul Kaplan is a self-confessed innovation junkie. MORE
Because I like this book so much, and because I’ve written about some of Grant’s other research in both Drive and To Sell is Human , I asked him to answer a few questions for Pink Blog readers. Every so often a book comes along that changes the way you see the world. MORE
Because Pink Blog readers are interested in new approaches to human motivation, I asked Kevin to answer a few questions about games, Wall Street, and presidential politics: 1. Gamification. It’s one of the year’s top memes. MORE
I was asked to provide some initial recommendations for that initiative, in the form of responses to five questions. In its 2010 Speech from the Throne , the Government of Ontario, Canada announced its intention to create an Ontario Online Institute (OOI) to support online learning in the province as part of the Open Ontario Plan. This is my response. ( PDF Version ) What is the biggest challenge facing online and distance learning in general today? MORE
Jobs and Apple have done the best job of answering with their products the question posed by wiki inventory Ward Cunningham : What’s the simplest thing that could possibly work? Remember all the predictions from members of the technorati that the iPad would fail ? It didn’t have a file system, or a camera, or a USB port, or lots of other things apparently critical to the success of a tablet computer. It didn’t do enough. MORE
Up first is The Question Pitch, which shows when you should use the interrogative to make your case (and when you should avoid it). Today we begin a new series of short videos based on Chapter 7 of To Sell is Human , wherein I reveal the 6 successors to the elevator pitch. MORE
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Because I like this book so much, and because I’ve written about some of Grant’s other research in both Drive and To Sell is Human , I asked him to answer a few questions for Pink Blog readers. Every so often a book comes along that changes the way you see the world. MORE
I was given a reminder of the promises I made regarding my talk next week, which has to do with the pedagogical underpinning for personal learning. Probably others have a much greater base of knowledge regarding pedagogy particularly, so I hesitate to offer models for specific situations. I would imagine people in the field have those well in hand. MORE
By asking the ‘magic’ question, we ask ourselves to step outside what we’ve known and believe is possible, and consider the options we’d have if we didn’t have the technological limitations. So, are you ready to ask the ‘magic’ question? A number of years ago, I wrote a paper about design, some of the barriers our cognitive architecture provides, and some heuristics I used to get around them. MORE
Because his book is so interesting, I asked him to answer a few questions for Pink Blog readers. * * *. First we had IQ. Next came EQ. Now, Bruce Nussbaum introduces CQ — Creative Intelligence. MORE
The Executive Networks hosts plumbed the audience for questions our presentation had raised. Clark Quinn and I kicked off a meeting of the Chief Learning Officer Network at Symantec’s offices in Mountain View on Wednesday. MORE
Questions Related Topics Clark Quinn
FEBRUARY 23, 2016
By asking the ‘magic’ question, we ask ourselves to step outside what we’ve known and believe is possible, and consider the options we’d have if we didn’t have the technological limitations. So, are you ready to ask the ‘magic’ question? A number of years ago, I wrote a paper about design, some of the barriers our cognitive architecture provides, and some heuristics I used to get around them.
Dan Pontefract
SEPTEMBER 19, 2016
A reader took the time to read “ The Purpose Effect ” and then asked me a few questions. I answered those questions, and have decided to post the responses in this space.
Harold Jarche
OCTOBER 9, 2016
The problem is to know what questions to ask.”. The question is: how do we shape our structures for tomorrow?
John Hagel
JULY 9, 2013
The option is to focus more than ever on three core strategy questions that can help provide us with focus and stability even as the turbulence increases around us – and help us to prioritize where we need to respond and where we don’t. That’s why it’s more critical than ever to be able to answer this question clearly and compellingly, for ourselves and the people we want to reach. This is a relatively new, but increasingly important, strategic question.
David Weinberger
MARCH 29, 2013
” So, it’s 1982 and you have a programming question. I left a message along the lines of “I’m a random stranger with a basic question about a programming language you probably never heard of, so would you mind calling me back?
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
MARCH 17, 2011
I was asked to provide some initial recommendations for that initiative, in the form of responses to five questions. In its 2010 Speech from the Throne , the Government of Ontario, Canada announced its intention to create an Ontario Online Institute (OOI) to support online learning in the province as part of the Open Ontario Plan. This is my response. ( PDF Version ) What is the biggest challenge facing online and distance learning in general today?
Dan Pontefract
MAY 8, 2016
How can employees further strengthen their personal purpose? Personal purpose, in essence, is a lifetime journey. Many individuals make the mistake of. believing once they “find themselves” there is no need to further develop or strengthen their. personal purpose.
Clark Quinn
MAY 17, 2011
As part of an initiative for ASTD’s upcoming International Conference and Exposition , I was filmed as I responded to 10 questions around mobile (if you’re there, hope to hear how it goes) from Tony Bingham (he came in via conference call).
Dan Pontefract
JANUARY 17, 2011
I’ve spent just over a month on Quora , the so-called site that hosts a “ continually improving collection of questions and answers created, edited, and organized by everyone who uses it.”. Opinions, not answers, to an open-ended question. It’s a Question and Opinion site.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
SEPTEMBER 16, 2012
I received a flurry of questions on some articles on my website yesterday, questions from students at Vancouver Island University. So the question is, in all four scenarios, not how we can eliminate competition and foster an attitude of collaboration, but rather, what degree of competition is appropriate in such scenarios, and how does the practice of sharing resources reconcile with that degree of competition. So that's my first reaction to the question.
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
FEBRUARY 26, 2014
Teaching forces you to take a fresh look at the subjects you are covering, so I find myself revisiting questions I’ve long been thinking about: What is the essence of innovation in the digital economy and how does it differ from the industrial age innovation of the past two hundred years?
Dan Pink
APRIL 9, 2013
Because I like this book so much, and because I’ve written about some of Grant’s other research in both Drive and To Sell is Human , I asked him to answer a few questions for Pink Blog readers. Every so often a book comes along that changes the way you see the world.
Dan Pink
APRIL 9, 2013
Because I like this book so much, and because I’ve written about some of Grant’s other research in both Drive and To Sell is Human , I asked him to answer a few questions for Pink Blog readers. Every so often a book comes along that changes the way you see the world.
Dan Pink
OCTOBER 18, 2011
For the last couple of years, he’s tried to answer that question by hanging out with the best talent spotters in the world – the U.S. In 4 questions you got to the heart of the matter and the answers are worth GOLD. Love these questions and excerpts. Dan Pink. Contact.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
OCTOBER 18, 2011
I was asked the following questions after my presentation to CZ Course RVP_VT21 yesterday: (Elements of Coop.) Having said that - there is a subtext to this question which suggests that content needs to be organized, the best content selected, and a mechanism put in place to ensure that people follow and pay attention to this content. Finally, the question addresses the idea of a purpose of being to 'win some recognition'.
Jay Cross
MARCH 2, 2011
Furthermore, asking open-ended questions yields a lot more meaningful information than check-boxes and rating scales.
Dan Pontefract
MARCH 5, 2011
Other questions to consider: Does the organization treat everyone as leaders, or, is it rife with command and control tendencies, using ‘managers’ as a basis to carry out top-down objectives?
Dan Pink
MARCH 7, 2013
Because his book is so interesting, I asked him to answer a few questions for Pink Blog readers. * * *. First we had IQ. Next came EQ. Now, Bruce Nussbaum introduces CQ — Creative Intelligence.
Dan Pink
MARCH 7, 2013
Because his book is so interesting, I asked him to answer a few questions for Pink Blog readers. * * *. First we had IQ. Next came EQ. Now, Bruce Nussbaum introduces CQ — Creative Intelligence.
Andy McAfee
AUGUST 25, 2011
Jobs and Apple have done the best job of answering with their products the question posed by wiki inventory Ward Cunningham : What’s the simplest thing that could possibly work? Remember all the predictions from members of the technorati that the iPad would fail ? It didn’t have a file system, or a camera, or a USB port, or lots of other things apparently critical to the success of a tablet computer. It didn’t do enough.
Harold Jarche
JANUARY 25, 2013
The big question is: What do we do if and when our old mechanisms for coping with inequality break down? Pursuit of Everything: Question everything. Here are some of the observations and insights that were shared via social media during the past week or two.
Dan Pink
SEPTEMBER 12, 2013
Because his book addresses such core desires, I’ve asked Joel to answer a few questions about the book and his work as an executive coach.
Beth Kanter
SEPTEMBER 30, 2014
10 lessons for Giving Days, and one question: How can we make them more sustainable? With those questions in mind, Knight commissioned the consulting firm Third Plateau to evaluate the 18 Giving Days the foundation supports. Click to see the full infographic.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
APRIL 4, 2013
Some of the questions we’re looking at are on the slide. These are the same kinds of questions we have been asking about online learning but now we have a broader platform to do that on. Question: Does the Gates foundation fund X? Summary of a presentation from Stacey L.
Dan Pink
APRIL 12, 2012
Lately I’ve been digging into this broad question of how of we move people and I consulted a fascinating book I’d read several months ago titled Instant Influence: How to Get Anyone to Do Anything – Fast! You probably respond with a perfectly rational question like, “Why not?” Unfortunately, I’ve learned that rational questions are ineffective for motivating resistant people. Instead I’ve found that irrational questions actually motivate people better.
Dan Pink
JUNE 25, 2012
Because the book is so relevant to the issues many of us confront, I asked Saul to answer a few questions for Pink Blog readers: You start off your book by saying “The goal for all leaders is to avoid being netflixed.” My pal Saul Kaplan is a self-confessed innovation junkie.
Dan Pink
NOVEMBER 8, 2012
Because Pink Blog readers are interested in new approaches to human motivation, I asked Kevin to answer a few questions about games, Wall Street, and presidential politics: 1. Gamification. It’s one of the year’s top memes.
Dan Pink
AUGUST 9, 2011
Why progress matters: 6 questions for Harvard’s Teresa Amabile Here’s a tip for rounding out your summer reading. I asked Amabile if she’d answer some questions for Pink Blog readers about her book and her insights. Dan Pink. Contact. Follow Dan on Twitter. About Dan.
David Weinberger
MARCH 2, 2011
For example, the session opened with a discussion of public versus research libraries (with the “versus&# thrown into immediate question). See the next question.). Which brings me to the final question I left wondering about: How disruptive should the DPLA be? I got to attend the Digital Public Library of America ‘s first workshop yesterday. It was an amazing experience that left me with the best kind of headache: Too much to think about!
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
JANUARY 4, 2010
I was given a reminder of the promises I made regarding my talk next week, which has to do with the pedagogical underpinning for personal learning. Probably others have a much greater base of knowledge regarding pedagogy particularly, so I hesitate to offer models for specific situations. I would imagine people in the field have those well in hand.
Doc Searls
SEPTEMBER 23, 2012
I haven’t seen that question asked yet. Having both iPhone and Android devices in the household, I’ve been struck for some time by the absence of two Google Maps features on the iPhone that appear on the Android. One is adaptive turn-by-turn directions (the “recalculating” thing that good GPSes, like those of Garmin, Magellan and Tom-Tom, have always done) when you go off the original course.
Jay Cross
APRIL 28, 2011
The Executive Networks hosts plumbed the audience for questions our presentation had raised. Clark Quinn and I kicked off a meeting of the Chief Learning Officer Network at Symantec’s offices in Mountain View on Wednesday.
Dan Pink
MARCH 25, 2013
Because I thought Pink Blog readers would find the book intriguing, I asked Fisman (he teaches at Columbia) and Sullivan (he’s editorial director of Harvard Business Review Press) to answer some questions. * * *. This really builds on our answer to the third question.
Dan Pink
MARCH 25, 2013
Because I thought Pink Blog readers would find the book intriguing, I asked Fisman (he teaches at Columbia) and Sullivan (he’s editorial director of Harvard Business Review Press) to answer some questions. * * *. This really builds on our answer to the third question.
Dan Pink
APRIL 18, 2013
Because I know Pink Blog readers love the sort of actionable social science found in this book, I figured out Heidi Halvorson’s and Higgins’s approaches (they’re both promotion-focused) and convinced them they had a lot to gain from answering some questions. * * *.
Dan Pink
APRIL 18, 2013
Because I know Pink Blog readers love the sort of actionable social science found in this book, I figured out Heidi Halvorson’s and Higgins’s approaches (they’re both promotion-focused) and convinced them they had a lot to gain from answering some questions. * * *.
Mark Oehlert
DECEMBER 2, 2012
A few days ago I tweeted a question about why Peter Senge never seemed to be mentioned in learning circles along with folks like Bloom, Gagne, and Kirkpatrick. : #crowdbooster told me that I was RT'd 7 times on that tweet and reached a potential audience of about 18,000 people.
Ross Dawson
OCTOBER 6, 2011
Twitter has moved from asking ‘what are you doing now?’ ’ to ‘what’s happening?’, ’, and now describes itself as an ‘ information network ‘ The Twitter News Network is a manifestation of the global brain , in which we create value for others by contributing to the visibility and availability of high-value information.
David Weinberger
FEBRUARY 11, 2011
A question: We’re going to be arguing forever about the role and importance of social media in the Egyptian revolution, but I want to ask a smaller question: Would the Egyptian Revolution been leaderless without the presence of social media? I ask this as a genuine question. This is such a miraculous day for our sisters and brothers in Egypt.
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