Resilience: Investing in Youth, Disruptive Learning Environments
Last week was “resilience” week in my life. Tuesday night we were at Robson Square for “Community-based Resilience: Front-Line Storiesfrom US & Canada. We were fortunate to have Mary Rowe visiting from the Municipal Arts Society of New York (MASNY). I called Mary the “doyenne of resilience” — she has taken MASNY from being simply […]
Dublin House. Pivot Dublin. CreativeD.
We spent our final Leadings Cities day in Dublin at Dublin City Hall — finding out about all their initiatives which focus on two pillars: smart, digital, green leisure, tourism, culture We are very fortunate to have a wonderful point person form the City of Dublin on Leading Cities — Jamie Cudden. He is now […]
Leading Cities: Day 2 Dublin: Science Gallery, Digital Hub, Guinness
Forgot to mention in the last post that on Day 1 we met Ireland’s Prime Minister Enda Kenny at the “Dail” — their parliament. We also stuck our noses into their version of House of Commons & Senate. Interesting to listen to the discussion. At the time, the hot news was the “Anglo-Irish Bank Tapes” […]
Leading Cities Summit: Day 1 Dublin
The World Class Cities Partnership is re-branding. Hurrah! We are now “Leading Cities” — and now we need a tag-line. But more importantly, we just met in Dublin for 3 days. There were representatives from the following Cities (from universities and from the Cities themselves — often Deputy Mayors or Councillors). The cities represented this […]
Business in Society: rapping and story-telling
Mitigate. Compensate. Negotiate. Rob Kasp Sawan was the inspiration for one of the MBA teams to complete their report on their aboriginal leader interview with a rap folding in the concepts of mitigate, compensate, negotiate. KASP stands for Keeping Allive Stories for People. http://www.kaspentertainment.com/KASP_Biography.pdf The inaugural run of the Business in Society module focusing on […]
New MBA Module: Business in Society: Indigenous Leadership & the Culture of Engagement
Tomorrow is the launch of an inaugural four-day Business in Society Module in the Full-time MBA Program at Sauder. The topic is “Indigneous Leadership and the Culture of Engagement”. James Tansey from ISIS, Rick Colbourne from the Ch’nook Program at Sauder and I are leading this four-day module. Learning Objectives: Students will be able to: […]
MBA Global Immersion – the inaugural run
The Sauder MBA is in dynamic revision. Some would argue this is frustrating — others would say that curriculum always should be evolving and transforming in response to students and societal context. Whichever side of the fence you sit on, the Global Immersion for our Full Time MBAs had its inaugural run this past February. […]
Wireless Electric Vehicle Charging: a co-creation project
As part of the World Class Cities Partnership’s 2013 research project — “Co-Creating Urban Sustainability” — 4 Sauder MBA students (Phil Gray, Reid Keller, Michele Mossman & Geoff Carran) have started a project on Wireless Electric Vehicle Charging. http://www.northeastern.edu/wccp/ The course (a Sauder Directed Study) is being led along strategic design principles, which include: Co-creation […]
When Widows Dance: Story Strategies for Innovation (prologue)
I met Dirk Beveridge in a bar in Rhode Island. No surprise, as most of my best professional relationships have started in bars. (Note that I use the word “relationship” intentionally – doing great things starts with the relationship first – details second. And bars tend to bring out our authentic selves, which helps us build authentic […]
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When I was at BiF8, the kind folks at SYPartners gave us all a prototype deck of cards to test out, as a way to help us each identify our unique “superpower”. (Superpowers are all the rage, BTW). According to the cards, mine is “distillation”. I’m not sure I’d call that my super-power, though I do consider it a […]