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I came across this eye-opening 7½ minute video via this blog posting . About 1½ minute into the video, I noticed the following question: What do your students create? In this regard, I’d like to ask you the following 2 questions: Question # 1 What is more important to promote in education: Analytic thinking or creative thinking? Question # 2 To which degree are collaborative technologies / Web 2.0 / social media used in the types of education you know about?

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Via a Twitter update by Jorge Barba I came across this posting through which I learned, for example, that Nike encouraged people passing by to stop and walk or run a while on an interactive, ground level billboard with a built-in treadmill, located in Mexico. For every kilometer run, Nike donated a certain amount of money to UNICEF . For more reasons, I think the initiative is interesting. Examples: - The initiative is an extra motivation for people to get some exercise. - The initiative supports UNICEF and thereby helps build a world where the rights of every child are realized. - The initiative is effective marketing for the company.

Via this posting about unusual and creative hotels, I came across this floating hotel in Sweden. An interesting contribution to the experience economy.

Via this Mashable posting , I came across this remarkable innovation. An interesting contribution to the experience economy. Reflecting on this innovation, I ask whether future pianos will be touch screens? What's your view on that?

Listening is important – not least because it shows people that you care . Watching / listening to the very interesting slidecast embedded below, that I came across via a Twitter update by Alex Osterwalder , I learned about these 10 tips to become a great listener: 1. Learn to say “not right now” When you’re busy, tired, or distracted, and don’t have the energy to listen fully, say to the person, who wants to talks to you, that you’ll get back to him/her when you can give him/her your full attention. 2. Eliminate distractions For example, turn off your mobile phone when you’re having a conversation with another person face-to-face or using another communication tool. 3. Be present in the moment 4. Take notes It’s a good idea to ask for permission to take notes from the person, you’re listening to. 5. Ask questions In this regard, ask clarifying questions to better understand what the person has said. Example: “Have I understood you correctly that…” A clarifying question gives the spe...

Listening to this 1 hour talk by Dr. Walter Bortz, I noted, not least the following remarks: - ”What we have now is a disease industry, an illness industry. We spend almost 20% of GDP on sickness, less than 2% on prevention.” - “We have to get out of the repair business and into the prevention business”. - ”Nobody is out there trying to prevent cancer. They are all so busy treating it, because you get paid for it.” - “Doctors were originally teachers. So I’m a teacher first, and a repair person second. I would much rather you don’t get sick, but you don’t get paid for that.” - “A study found that nurses, who take 2 hours of walking every day, have 40% less breast cancer”. You'll find a 3½ minute extract of the Mr. Bortz' talk here:

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At the start of this interesting blog posting by Mitch Ditkoff, I came across this quote from Peter Senge: "Companies are actually living organisms, not machines. We keep bringing in mechanics, when what we need are gardeners ." My initial thought, as I read this quote, was on Gareth Morgan’s book Images of Organizations , a book that I can highly recommend. In the book, Mr. Morgan writes, for example, about organizations as machines and about organizations as organisms. On page 66 of the book, I read, for example this: “It would be an exaggeration to suggest, that mechanistic organizations do not innovate, but the point contains an important kernel of truth.” Find some more inspiration ways to organize here . At Triemli hospital in Zürich , which is being renewed in these months, I came across this really great sign in the construction zone. Reflecting on the message on the sign, I’d like to ask you the following question: When nature builds on change, to which degree do y...

In this 4½ minute video, which is # 3 on the ten most watched Big Think videos of 2009 , Tal Ben-Shahar mentions the following 5 practical tips to help you become a happier person: # 1: Accept painful emotions When you give yourself the permission to be human, you open yourself up to positive emotions as well. # 2: Spend quality time with people you care about # 3: Get physical exercise regularly We were made to be physically active. Get exercise 3 times a week of 30-40 minutes. # 4: Cultivate the habit of gratitude For example, appreciate that you’re healthy. # 5: Simplify Do less rather than more.