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Duane Sharrock

Bringing the world to innovation - MIT News Office - 0 views

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  • mentions: a popular TED talk Smith gave in 2006 and Time magazine’s
  • D-Lab, the project aimed to develop creative solutions to problems facing people in the world’s least-affluent countries — and then hoped those residents would embrace the solutions.
  • thanks to a major new U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) grant to D-Lab and MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning, D-Lab’s instructors and researchers will implement this strategy even more broadly — providing greater continuity to projects around the world, says D-Lab founder Amy Smith, a senior lecturer in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering.
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  • Awareness of D-Lab has grown in recent years, thanks in part to some prominent mentions: a popular TED talk Smith gave in 2006 and Time magazine’s selection of her in 2010 as one of the world’s 100 most influential people.
  • The program now employs about 20 people and encompasses 16 courses that reach about 400 students each year. Even though D-Lab does little to publicize its activities, staffers are increasingly hearing that this program was a major reason why participating students chose to attend MIT.
  • with the new USAID support, “we can harness the alumni of IDDS as a kind of an extremely diverse and dispersed design consultancy,”
  • While some students have already managed to turn class projects into ongoing organizations — building better water filters in Africa, bicycle-powered washing machines in Latin America, and wheelchairs in India, for instance — the new funding should enable more such activities, Smith says, by “incubating ventures and training entrepreneurs.”
  • The emphasis has shifted,” Grau Serrat says, “more from designing for poor people to designing with poor people, or even design by poor people.”
  • Duane Sharrock on 09 Nov 12
     
    Another reason some students are applying to MIT. Undergrads are making a difference globally. "the innovative MIT classes and field trips known collectively as D-Lab, the project aimed to develop creative solutions to problems facing people in the world's least-affluent countries - and then hoped those residents would embrace the solutions." "The program now employs about 20 people and encompasses 16 courses that reach about 400 students each year. Even though D-Lab does little to publicize its activities, staffers are increasingly hearing that this program was a major reason why participating students chose to attend MIT." "All of D-Lab's classes assess the needs of people in less-privileged communities around the world, examining innovations in technology, education or communications that might address those needs. The classes then seek ways to spread word of these solutions - and in some cases, to spur the creation of organizations to help disseminate them. Specific projects have focused on improved wheelchairs and prosthetics; water and sanitation systems; and recycling waste to produce useful products, including charcoal fuel made from agricultural waste."
  • Duane Sharrock on 09 Nov 12
     
    "All of D-Lab's classes assess the needs of people in less-privileged communities around the world, examining innovations in technology, education or communications that might address those needs. The classes then seek ways to spread word of these solutions - and in some cases, to spur the creation of organizations to help disseminate them. Specific projects have focused on improved wheelchairs and prosthetics; water and sanitation systems; and recycling waste to produce useful products, including charcoal fuel made from agricultural waste."
Leader in u

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  • Leader in u on 13 Jul 16
     
    Join our executive leadership training program that can build executive level skills and help you grow in your organization. Download the brochure from the site.
  • Leader in u on 13 Jul 16
     
    Join our executive leadership training program that can build executive level skills and help you grow in your organization. Download the brochure from the site.
Snap Munk

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  • Snap Munk on 27 May 15
     
    Marketing consulting & brand strategy management for organic growth in your business. Read about latest news on growth strategies & taking business to the next level.
David Ellena

5 Characteristics of an Innovative Organization | Connected Principals - 0 views

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  • David Ellena on 02 Aug 14
     
    Some excellent thoughts on what an innovative organization looks like
Snap Munk

Small Business Startup Grants - bloggernity.com - 0 views

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  • Snap Munk on 04 Jun 15
     
    Marketing consulting & brand strategy management for organic growth in your business.
Snap Munk

Leadership Assessment Tools | purevolume.com - 0 views

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    Marketing consulting & brand strategy management for organic growth in your business.
Don Lourcey

Rodrigo Baggio's Persuasive Leadership - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review - 4 views

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  • Don Lourcey on 25 Mar 10
     
    Rodrigo Baggio's Persuasive Leadership. Notice these featured points: Bring people together who aren't connected, Design new business models by combining players and resources in new ways, Persevere with an idea until you see success, Don't rely on credentials, but on the power of your ideas, Persuade others to see the possibility of your ideas and join you in the pursuit, Empower others to also make change. Think on these questions: (1) Why are should these features define the essence of leadership in your schooling organization,and (2) how will you not only lead change, but how will you specifically make these critical features relevant to the work you are doing to lead?
Don Lourcey

The Anti-Creativity Checklist - Youngme Moon - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review - 4 views

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  • Don Lourcey on 06 Jan 11
     
    If you had to come up with a checklist for your organization that was guaranteed to stifle imagination, innovation, and out-of-box thinking...a checklist designed specifically for people who want nothing to do with disruptive change...what would it look like?
David Ellena

7-Step Prep: Make a Weekly Plan for YOU! | Edutopia - 0 views

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  • David Ellena on 02 Aug 14
     
    Some ideas to help keep me organized this year
aststraining1

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  • aststraining1 on 03 Apr 20
     
    AWS online course are popular from the greatest organizations! Get certified today at ASTS Online Training Institute from Hyderabad. Most value for cash AWS preparing on the web. Get awesome selective arrangements! Check offer at this point. Online training registration form: shorturl.at/uyJR2 Feel free please call us: +91 9603704766 Please drop us a mail: contact@astsonlinetraining.com
David Ellena

The Best Way for New Leaders to Build Trust - Jim Dougherty - Harvard Business Review - 0 views

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  • I spent more than four hours  listening in to client support calls at the call center.  I shared headsets with many of the team, moving from desk to desk to speak to the reps. To say they were surprised is an understatement: Many CEOs never visit the call center, and virtually none do it their first afternoon on the job.
  • I made this my priority partly because I wanted to know what customers were saying—but also to make an internal statement.
  • Without trust, it is very unlikely you will learn the truth on what is really going on in that organization and in the market place. 
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  • Without trust, employees won’t level with you—at best, you’ll learn either non-truths or part truths.
  • The best way to start building trust to take the time and meet as many individual contributors as you can as soon as you can.
  • Many leaders see their role as directing and giving information, rather than gathering.  There is pressure to “come up with the answer” quickly or risk looking weak.  Too many new leaders believe they’re expected to know the answer without input or guidance. Nothing could be further from the truth.
  • Doing this correctly takes time—but less than you might think.
    • David Ellena
      David Ellena on 30 Dec 13
       
      I could be trusted with the truth..how powerful
  • Later on my first day at Intralinks, I began arranging meetings with individual contributors. That’s where my learning really began. Over the next few weeks I met with over 60 individual contributors. Not only did I learn a lot, but I convinced them that I cared what they thought and could be trusted with the truth.
  • Instead of just laying this out in an all-hands meeting, I began laying out the plan in one-on-one meetings in which I talked about how each individual’s feedback had helped guide my thinking.
  • None of this could have happened without building the trust of the team. New leaders must remember that many of the best insights on how to fix a company lie with employees further down the org chart. Creating a trusting, honest dialogue with these key personnel should be every new leader’s top priority.
  • David Ellena on 30 Dec 13
     
    Some great advice for new leaders about earning trust
Snap Munk

5 Reasons People Hate Your Website - 0 views

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  • Snap Munk on 28 May 15
     
    Even though your online business idea might be great, got tons of initial traction and generated huge traffic, you began noticing a steady decline in traffic over time.
Jari Laru

Novicraft Teambuilding and Leadership Game - 0 views

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  • Jari Laru on 16 Jan 11
     
    NoviCraft is a multiplayer 3D game developed for teambuilding and leadership training. It is an excellent awareness application for trainers, HRD specialists and consultants for assessing, building, and developing leaders, teams and team work in various organizations.
Courtney Jablonski

Education Week Teacher: Hybrid Teaching Roles Promote Student Success - 0 views

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shared by Courtney Jablonski on 07 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • a hybrid teacher role as Data Strategist. I was charged with the task of organizing the various data points that, taken collectively, offer useful clues about student achievement, progress, and deficiency. The data lens could zoom out to a schoolwide perspective that might inform staff development planning, narrow to a classroom or grade-level view offering insight on skills requiring remediation, or focus on a single student being considered for referral to the school psychologist for a learning disability.
  • There is growing evidence that teacher empowerment as school leaders is linked strongly with teachers' tendency to engage in behaviors that accelerate student growth: soliciting parent involvement, communicating positive expectations, and being willing and able to innovate in the classroom.
  • In addition to measurable student impact, teachers that lead schools are better equipped to guide their own professional development, share their expertise, and develop explicit and implicit systems of accountability, while experiencing more respectful, trusting, and professional cultures.
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  • Title 1 funding that traditionally would have paid for an additional literacy specialist was allocated for the data strategist position.
  • The possibilities are endless when an individual's interests and skills are considered within the context of a school's needs. Such roles might also include community liaisons responsible for connecting families with various social services while plugging students into local job, volunteering, or community service opportunities. A keen interest in 21st-century skills might develop into a role that guides students to collaborate with others, synthesize information, and create something unique and useful for their peers.
  • The most prevalent barrier to hybrid teaching roles is the district-mandated staffing plan that leaves buildings with little opportunity to determine how personnel are allocated.
Courtney Jablonski

Education Innovation: Your School's Secret Change Agents - 6 views

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shared by Courtney Jablonski on 28 Feb 11 - Cached
  • “Somewhere in your organization, groups of people are already doing things differently and better. To create lasting change, find areas of positive deviance and fan their flames.”
  • school staff takes ownership of the quest for change
  • identifies preexisting solutions (what is working) and amplifies them across the school
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  • Flows From Solution Identification To Problem SolvingPossible source of solutions is expanded through discovery of new parameters
  • Identifies school stakeholders beyond those directly involved with the problem
  • Courtney Jablonski on 03 Mar 11
     
    Love the suggestions made in this article. Thinking and acting outside of the box often provides avenues to success.
David Ellena

8 Ways To Energize Your Next Meeting | Fast Company | Business + Innovation - 0 views

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  • David Ellena on 21 Dec 14
     
    Some ideas on making meetings less painful
David Ellena

5 Characteristics of an Innovative Organization | Connected Principals - 0 views

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  • David Ellena on 17 Jul 14
     
    Is your school "innovative"? Here are some ?'s to ask
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