Posts Tagged ‘attention’

Don’t mess with human nature

By Charles Ehin. Think for a moment about your most memorable work and life experiences. What aspects of those events ultimately surface as most meaningful? My guess is that the episodes are closely linked to mutually rewarding relationships. ... more for subscribers only! Please Login to continue reading...
September 22nd, 2009 | 01 (5) 2009 / html, Learning | Read More

Emotional contagion – good and bad

By Carol Kinsey Goman. It started out to be a wonderful day. The sun was shining and I was singing along with my favorite radio station while driving through unusually light traffic to the San Francisco airport. Then, as I was turning into the airport parking lot, a driver abruptly pulled in front of...
September 21st, 2009 | 01 (5) 2009 / html, Learning | Read More

The Learning Factory

K-12 classrooms irrelevant to today’s environment. By David Warlick. There is a commonly told story, usually attributed to Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Seymour Papert. It states that if a doctor from the 1890s were to suddenly be time-warped into a modern twenty-first century hospital,...
May 14th, 2009 | 01 (2) 2009 / html, Cover stories, FREE articles, Learning | Read More

The rise from waiter to general manager

Young, trendy general managers are not hard to come by in the restaurant business, but finding passion, determination and endurance all rolled into one is a recipe for success. One such GM, Lukas Laubscher, now has The Crab at Chieveley as his oyster. The Crab at Chieveley in Newbury Berkshire, UK, an...
April 12th, 2009 | 01 (1) 2009 / html, FREE articles, Working | Read More