Why We Should Argue For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate – Margaret Heffernan I love argument, I love debate. I don’t expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that’s not their job – Margaret Thatcher Arguing is hard. We’ve all felt the unpleasantness that intractable disagreements bring into our lives. We like to see arguments as contests featuring a winner and a loser. Furthermore, our likely emotional…
The science of learning updates itself regularly. Accordingly, having already written about “learning how to learn”, here’s a post that features rolling updates on anything broadly related to learning that has caught my attention since then. The updates appear in ascending order below. However, before we get into that, it’s worth revisiting the value of improving our ability to learn. In this regard, we may take the advice of Tony Yeoh, the Chief Information Officer of Intercontinental Hotels Group…
Leadership is a much bandied-about concept. Its descriptions are as multiple as its promoters. Yet while definitions of the term seem to have iterated to the point of meaninglessness, we continue to return to it. Every day, new articles, talks, and books touting the best definitions of leadership and how to cultivate or find it surface. At the intuitive level, many of us understand that a “leader” is someone who tells other people what to do for the sake…