Recently, my father and I had a conversation about the difference between his experience in the workplace and mine.
My father graduated college and went to work as a high-school librarian in Cicero, Illinois (one of the close-in suburbs of Chicago). Throughout his career, the school served immigrants as they came to the U.S. When he [...]
Archive for February, 2008
Relationships in a Flat World
Written by: Bill Sherman on Thursday, 28 February 2008, 10:08 PM
Applying Policies: Lessons from The Security Checkpoint
Written by: Bill Sherman on Sunday, 24 February 2008, 5:39 PM
Recently, I flew from St. Louis to Ft. Lauderdale via Southwest for a client meeting. Normally, my trip through the security checkpoint is brief and uneventful. Yet this time, I experienced how process and procedure can place us into unexpected situations. Here’s the story.
Just before 8 a.m., I stood just outside the TSA checkpoint in [...]
2010/03/20: Design Outside of the Box
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2010/03/13: Bi-Directional Collaboration
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2010/03/10: The Social LMS
by Bill Sherman
2010/01/21: Orphans Intend to Depart Haiti (Again)
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Planned Books
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Social Capital: A Multifaceted Perspective by Unknown |
Current Books
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Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (Political Economy of Ins by Elinor Ostrom |
Recent Books
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Yes!: 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive by Noah J. Goldstein |
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Structural Holes: The Social Structure of Competition by Ronald Burt |
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Strategy and the Fat Smoker; Doing What’s Obvious But Not Easy by David H Maister |
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The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures by Dan Roam |
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Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant by W. Chan Kim |