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Three tips for creating competency-based systems

It is very easy to spend months, or $$$$$ on a competency-based program, and end up with very little to show for it. A competency is (per Rodney Rogers of Portland State University) a persistent pattern of behaviour resulting from a cluster of knowledge, skills, abilities, and motivations. The persistence of those behaviors is an [...]

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Who will have well-paid, secure work in the new global economy?

We live in a global economy where a single ability distinguishes the people who will always have well-paid secure work, from those who will not. This is the ability to think well.* Can we create world-class thinkers in the schools of the United States, at a time when nations who are our economic competitors are [...]

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The role of “learning scientists” in creating organizational growth and wealth.

We all know that the US economy (as valued by Wall Street) grew a couple of trillion dollars between 1994 and the recession. Some of this was illusionary,  but there was real growth too. You don’t see new oil refineries and steel mills popping up all over the landscape. The real growth, and real wealth, [...]

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