by potential | Sep 26, 2012 | Collaboration, Learning & Thinking
One of the unfortunate facts of life is that, more often than not, we’re forced to make some of our most important decisions under pressure. Whether that pressure comes from time constraints, high emotion or some kind of crisis, it’s just not a good time to...
by potential | Jul 27, 2012 | Business & Entrepreneurship
Solving Problems by Fostering Community and Surfacing Innovation We work in silos. The boundaries might be fuzzy like a Turner landscape, but community, collaboration, and innovation can suffer as a result. We can improve our ability to work together to surface and...
by potential | Jul 26, 2012 | Learning & Thinking
Go to any academic journal and pull up a random scientific article. Can you understand it? Chances are you will probably not understand all of it. Even if you do understand all of it (yes, even including the statistical analysis section), do you understand how this...
by potential | Jul 24, 2012 | 1000 Community Stories
When I was a kid, I used to love going to the library. There was something amazing about going down to the local library with an empty book bag, and coming home with a bag full of borrowed magic that I could pore over for hours. Then I started earning money, and my...
by potential | Jul 18, 2012 | 1000 Community Stories
There is no need to argue about the complete failure of the drug war. Repression has clearly been disastrous, filling jails, criminalizing the poor, destroying communities in most countries of the Americas. Once Colombia, now Mexico illustrates the drug war absurdity...
