Category: Leadership
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Unexpected Leadership Lessons from the Drunk Guy at the Ballpark
A drunk guy at a baseball game accidentally provided some leadership lessons as he tried to start the wave. Here’s what he did right.
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Apply Mental Models in New Ways to Surmount Old Obstacles
I’ve been reading Range by David Epstein, a book I will expound upon once I have finished it. But a key concept that he introduces early in the book is that in order to become a truly transformational thinker in your field of expertise, you have to have a wide range of experiences that you…
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“F@#$ School F@#$ Softball F@#$ Cheer F@#$ Everything.” The Supreme Court Clarifies Limitations on Schools’ Ability to Regulate Free Expression
Cincinnati writer and educator Jack Jose explores the recent Supreme Court decision protecting a student’s profanity-laden anti-school rant.
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Get Unstuck: Learn Sudoku, or a Different New Game
Cincinnati author Jack Jose describes how learning a new game can help you get unstuck from your routine and uses the game of sudoku as an example.
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Things Really Are Better Than You Think: Lessons from Factfulness
Cincinnati writer Jack Jose looks at Hans Rosling’s book Factfulness and what Rosling called the negativity instinct. We can learn to see things as they are, which is not always so bad.
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I was 51 the first time I worked in a place that runs like an American factory-model school classroom
Cincinnati author and educator Jack Jose examines the parallels between factory work and many American factory-model school classrooms.