The Future Is There, Looking Back At Us
When I think about people’s response to future thinking, I often divide the world into 3 kinds of people: Wing It People – These are people who wake up every morning and take it as it comes. They make do with what they’re presented, and do what they...
If Future Thinking is so important why aren’t we teaching it?
It was Ricardo Semler who once said something like, “Every company should hire someone who’s job it is to look out the window.” I’ve always thought that would be nice work if you can get it 🙂 Business needs people who are bringing the outside...
The Rise of Résumé Building and the Decline of Play
My interest in Play is in the realisation of improved creativity and innovation, primarily in the workplace. However, one cannot avoid discussing both the importance of and decline in Play, with regards to children, if you’re going to describe the context we...
There Is No Evidence That Homework Improves Academic Performance
If research shows that the primary reason children are given homework is not being achieved, surely we need to take a serious look at why we continue to issue it, and if we can’t find a good reason to carry on, then we must stop it all together? This seems like...
When Children Don’t Play
There’s something most horrid that happens as we get older, somewhere on the journey from 11 to 23, and it involves the eradication of a fundamental part of what makes us human, and that is the ability to play. But it doesn’t stop there. Not only is it...
