many of today’s most valuable firms have come to realize that analyzing and improving individual workers — a practice known as ‘‘employee performance optimization’’ — isn’t enough. As commerce becomes increasingly global and complex, the bulk of modern work is more and more team-based.
What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team - The New York Times - 1 views
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teams are now the fundamental unit of organization.
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influence not only how people work but also how they work together.
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Meet the school with no classes, no classrooms and no curriculum - 0 views
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their entire approach is centred around projects. This is a school focused on learning, not teaching.
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Our teachers work five days, four days with kids, and on the fifth day I don’t allow them to work with kids, they have to observe other teachers and give them feedback.
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And if they do that enough I say ‘get out of the school’, go to a museum, go to a laboratory, go to a business and tell us what you found there.
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Why Empathy Holds the Key to Transforming 21st Century Learning | MindShift | KQED News - 2 views
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Empathy has the potential to open up students to deeper learning, drive clarity of thinking, and inspire engagement with the world—in other words, provide the emotional sustenance for outstanding human performance.
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Empathy lies at the heart of 21st century skillfulness in teamwork, collaboration and communication in a diverse world.
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The frontal lobes of the brain, at least as much as we know now, are the seat of planning, execution, problem solving and creativity—and when the frontal lobes are working well, so are we.
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