In a previous post (Chasing mice and eating elephants) I mentioned that ThinkingRock is great for running up and down the ladder from tasks to goals and mission. I thought it was time that I showed how, especially for those who haven’t used the program yet (I did mention that it is free at the [...]

Following on from the discussion about planned abandonment, there was an interesting post over on Ron Martoia’s velocityculture blog, where he talked about hunting elephants rather than mice, with the follow on comment by Ron:
“…focused on and how do you align time, energy, creativity and any other resource to the accomplishing of that mission. [...]

I was fascinated by a news article from the BBC last week (Nursery pupils taught philosophy), about a recent initiative to teach philosophy to primary school children. The research has been going on for a while, but has just been published. There is a fuller story with more colour to it in the Educational Guardian [...]

I think there are a huge number of exciting things about new technology and the web 2.0 world, but there are also some sad losses. We have automated and improved daily life to the point where we have free time and communications ability that previous generations could hardly have dreamed of.