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Article in Fortune about Google and innovation Story of Sheryl Sandberg "Take the case of Sheryl Sandberg, a 37-year-old vice president whose fiefdom includes the company's automated advertising system. Sandberg recently committed an error that cost Google several million dollars -- "Bad decision, moved too quickly, no controls in place, wasted some money," is all she'll say about it -- and when she realized the magnitude of her mistake, she walked across the street to inform Larry Page, Google's co-founder and unofficial thought leader. "God, I feel really bad about this," Sandberg told Page, who accepted her apology. But as she turned to leave, Page said something that surprised her. "I'm so glad you made this mistake," he said. "Because I want to run a company where we are moving too quickly and doing too much, not being too cautious and doing too little. If we don't have any of these mistakes, we're just not taking enough risk." When a million-dollar mistake earns a pat on the back, it's obvious this isn't your normal corporation."

value of admitting and learning from mistakes in executive and group situations--easier said than done

Slide program by Donston-Miller on LinkedIn mistakes, February 25, 2013 Relevant to our e-literacy fundamentals

Very scary video (4 minutes) by Mark Cuban on how privacy is violated because digital history is retained forever. Inc. How ownership shifts from author to recipient who may misuse it in any # of ways. Of course, Cuban is developing erasure apps that delete texts after a certain amount of time. Talks about tweets in particular. Unfollowing people who could be sending wrong message.

a good article by Natalie Walters at Business Insider on how not to network--good ideas

video by Matt Smith in a Tedx Bellevue conference, published on YouTube in December 2012 on how we blame and shame ourselves for our mistakes instead of taking a failure bow, learning, and moving on to succeed the next time. (12 minutes)

An article for BBC by Maggie Jackson, September 2009, about our inability to pay attention in an age driven by speed through technology "Still, I'm worried. These digital age wonders will be squandered if we can't think critically, research well, and evaluate the data-floods we now have at our fingertips - and these are precisely the skills alarmingly lacking among both digital natives and older generations. Half of college students can't judge the objectivity of a website. Workers now switch tasks every three minutes, half the time interrupting themselves. As David Nicholas points out, we spend our time online 'power-bouncing' from info-snippet to data-point. And this propensity to rely on point-and-click, first-up-on-Google answers, along with our growing unwillingness to wrestle uncomfortably with nuances or uncertainties, keeps us stuck on the surface of the 'information' age. We're too often sacrificing depth for breadth in the ways we make sense of the world. Yes, we've always had 'power bouncing' and distraction. And surfing or multitasking may have an important place in 21st-century society as strategies of learning. But going forward, we need to do much more than hopscotch across the web, split-focused and pulled this way and that by choice distractions. We cannot mistake fragmented, diffused attention as avenues of higher thought. Instead, we need to do better at cultivating - perhaps resuscitating? - deep focus, keen awareness and meta-cognitive 'executive' attention - the skills crucial to creativity and problem-solving. "

first tip is to find a digital home for projects in a LMS but it can be as simple as Google Sites or Wikispaces instead of Schoology or Edmodo or Google Classroom. 2. make sure everyone has anytime, anywhere access 3. set your support structures 4. turn the work over to the workers 5. track student progress and offer guidance when needed 6. learn from your mistakes

Edutopia blog on web tools to help students collaborate. Some fun principles for collaboration including: shut up and listen; action beats inaction; there are no mistakes. Worth viewing the old Carol Burnett show YouTube with Tim Conway.

a good article exploring Ben Bradlee's real leadership skills, by Mark Athitakis, October 27, 2014. Main Points: Never forget talent when you see it, and nurture it. Fight the good fight for diversity. Call shenanigans when necessary. Weather mistakes. Hire good people and let them do good work.

Interesting blog about About website pages

informed assessment/report by Justin Wolfers, NYTimes, on how extending parental leave policies cause unintended impacts

distinguishes between learning and performance zones

article by Kevin Bushweller, June 10, 2015 in EdWeek, good guidance for adult ed programs and informal adult learning as well IMO.

short blog post by Leigh Buchanan, editor at large for Inc. magazine on practice devised by NixonMcInnes (social media consultancy) on Church of Fail--very funny and agrees with something else I saw recently elsewhere on failure/admitting vulnerability. Here they applaud after all failures are confessed 1x a month.

article by Mike Myatt on five Keys of Dealing with Workplace conflict, 2/22/12.

good statement by Steve Folland on when to say no, February 9, 2016

Interview with Carol Dweck on the role of motivation in learning, Education World

Skillsyouneed stresses good writing skills

post by Elle Kaplan in Inc. on leading language