Originally published June 2017 Having drunk the KoolAid of rubrics and assessment, many the untrained academic administrator epitomizes that old saw about a knowing just
Managing the Wrong Problem
Originally published June 2017 We have a revenue problem, not a cost problem. Imagine an educational institution that finds itself running a budget deficit –
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Originally posted 16 June 2017 I saw the best minds of my institution distracted by madness, meeting endlessly in vain, poring themselves over balance sheets
In Comey Firing Trump Gets Notification Wrong Again
Any number of news outlets communicated a sense of outrage over the fact that James Comey apparently learned he’d been fired by looking up at
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“Hackathons” are cool. But who knows what they really are and how they work? This makes them ideal things for clueless managers to do poorly.
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Innoeduvation 