The Star Tribune’s Karen Youso interviewed me for what I thought would be a short sidebar article on accelerating change, but it wound up taking the full front page of the Variety section in today’s paper. I’m absolutely delighted to see mainstream media discuss the Technological Singularity! … especially since the article contains questions for [...]
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“Innovation in the field of innovation”
1/6/2009
I received feedback from several readers that Arthur Harkins’ reasoning for why we need to Leapfrog might seem a bit too Machiavellian — “us versus them.” I therefore hope everybody will enjoy the contrast of perspective in this next video. In early November, we had an opportunity to interview Jutta Treviranus, director of the Adaptive [...]
Arthur Harkins on Leapfrogging
12/30/2008
Earlier this month, I interviewed Arthur Harkins on our approach to innovating in human capital development (Leapfrog!). Specifically, I asked: What is Leapfrog? What are some examples of leapfrogging? What are the Leapfrog Institutes? What are the global implications for Leapfrog? Watch his responses in this video: A little background: Leapfroggingmeans to jump over obstacles [...]
Brooks on the “Cognitive Age”
5/2/2008
David Brooks wrote an excellent op-ed piece in today’s New York Times. He states that individuals cannot be successful in a globalized world without building advanced capabilities to transform information into meaningful knowledge: The globalization paradigm leads people to see economic development as a form of foreign policy, as a grand competition between nations and [...]
Quick thoughts on building innovation capital
2/27/2008
Today, I was asked, “what do we need to incorporate into educational programs to build innovation capital [in society]?” Good question. Here are some quick thoughts on how education leaders can build innovation capital in society immediately: Quit trying to manage education – how can we instead attend to educational experiences? Permit students and teachers [...]
John W. Moravec, Ph.D.
12/8/2006
About me I am a faculty member in the Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development and the Innovation Studies/Master of Liberal Studies graduate programs at the University of Minnesota. I am a co-initiator of the Invisible Learning project; a co-founder of the Horizon Forum, a roundtable on the future of education at all levels; [...]
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