"Predicting the future is easy. It's trying to figure out what's going on now that's hard" (Dressler, 2005)
I just finished reading Yuval Noah Harari’s book (2024) Nexus (and Audrey Watters would definitely like the cover!). Harari challenged both optimistic and pessimistic views of AI’s impact on society, arguing that treating information technology as either purely beneficial or destructive misses the unprecedented nature of our current moment. Through historical analysis from Stone Age… Read more Are We Still the United States?
Seven years ago, I was teaching ILD-831 – Leadership and Technology- for Creighton University. This was an elective in their Interdisciplinary Doctorate in Leadership…and one of my favorite courses! I posted a blog that noted that Jane Hart’s 2016 image for her update on Top Learning Tools captured the essence of my course in a… Read more My Old Tech Course is Old
Next week, I will once again teach the doctoral course ILD-831 for Creighton University – Technology and Leadership. I enjoy this course because it pushes me as both a technology advocate and also as a advocate for people-centric leadership. To experience a bit of the digital world in which these doctoral students now or will… Read more A Flashlight versus a North Star
I just saw an insightful tweet from Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI): The events of the past week, culminating in the horrific insurrection of the pro-Trump mob on the U.S. Capital, have been in my thoughts as I prepared to once again teach my Creighton doctoral course on Technology and Leadership. To click this class off,… Read more Optimism and Pessimism in a Bipolar World
I have been stewing for the past several days after learning about the op-ed by Joseph Epstein regarding Dr. Jill Biden. In “Is there a Doctor in the White House? Not if you need an M.D.“, Epstein puts down women and those holding Ed.D’s. In the piece, Epstein noted that he does not have a… Read more The Misogynistic Epstein Smear
Someone joked on Twitter last week that he would not be “falling back” when Daylight Savings Time shifted to Standard Time, because he did not want to give 2020 even one more hour! It has been a tough year … and some suggest 2021 might be as bad or worse. Audrey Watters certainly knows that… Read more Resilience as Part of Character
“As the world becomes more connected, more transparent, and more diverse, businesses need a new type of leadership.” That was the lead sentence in a Forbes article by Bonnie Marcus entitled “What Are the Most Important Leadership Skills for the Future?“. Marcus was citing the 2019 Global Human Capital Trends report by Deloitte. Deloitte researchers… Read more Human Focus in a Tech World
In my Creighton University ILD-831 course on Technology and Leadership this week, my students are reflecting on what “knowledge management” means in a cloud environment. Tom Davenport, originally with Ernst and Young, defined KM in 1994 – “Knowledge Management is the process of capturing, distributing, and effectively using knowledge.” That definition has certainly evolved in… Read more Knowledge Not College Mantra
I have not seen the report yet (it is a bit pricey for us adjuncts), but there was an interesting post in the Chronicle of Higher Education this morning on a new report on the future of learning and the potential impact this will have on college classrooms. Beckie Supiano interviewed Beth McMurtrie on this… Read more Hard and Necessary
Not sure why this did not show up on my radar scope the past 4 years, but a recent blog mentioned a Teal Organization…a term I had never heard. Looking in to it, I found it referred to a leadership philosophy espoused by Frederic Laloux in his 2014 book Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating… Read more How Teal Are You?