Writings

Asking the Right Questions

“What builds a relationship, what solves problems, what moves things forward is asking the RIGHT questions.” Ed Schein in Humble Inquiry. Machiavelli’s The Prince, written centuries before organizational development was a thing, noted that a great prince must “certainly be a great asker of questions.” What are the RIGHT questions? They are the kinds of questions that push us beyond…

October 22, 2017
Why Don’t Students Like School?

I’ve started in on Daniel Willingham’s Why Don’t Students Like School. The sub-line is more informative: “A cognitive scientist answers questions about how the mind works and what it means for the classroom.” Here are some of the more fascinating insights I’ve gained thus far. I’m sharing them largely as tidbits for reflection rather than being…

September 11, 2017
The Death of the Good

Great video here from Prager on why modern art is so bad. But it applies to the question of truth in general. The loss of an objective aesthetic in art has led to a loss of the meaning of beauty, the celebration of the scatalogical, and the move, as he puts it in the video,…

March 29, 2017
Stop Trying to Lead and Start Making a Difference

Forbes ran a great blog article recently on 7 reasons why millennials fail to get promoted at work. You’ve got to go read it. Seriously. Especially if you are a millennial…or you have a job. I’m not going to rehash that list here, but the 7 reasons are spot on. They got me thinking of some…

March 28, 2017
Teaching Five Minds

Howard Gardner is the psychologist and educator who introduced the idea of multiple intelligences. More recently, Gardner has suggested five distinct mental abilities, or minds, that are important for educators to cultivate in order for students to be effective and successful in the globalized complex world of the digital information age [1]. The first three minds are cognitive, the last two relational: The…

March 24, 2017
The Church and the World

One error says that we should abandon the world and run away from it, and the other error says that we should on the world and run it.

March 10, 2017