Gary Ackerman @garyackerman@qoto.org

If your focus is on making sure you can measure it, then it is unlikely you will nurture it. #learning

I just finished reading a (non-fiction) account of someone challenged to a duel. Because he was challenged, he decided on sausages as the weapon. He was to eat the cooked one, the challenger the uncooked.

When I begin phrasing a question to a leader who interrupts and answers the expected question before I’m finished (asking a different one), I realize the organization is in trouble.

So much of our “biology” emerges from physiology and environment.

The best #edtech is that which can be used for things never intended by the designers.

Article about illness on cruise ships contains advertisements for cruises. I wonder how many “click-throughs” result? How many bookings?

Maybe I misunderstand advertising

Innovators change how “things” are done. Some innovations are accepted and diffuse through the community, most fail to “catch on.”

If you have one answer, you don’t understand the problem.

Yeah, your infographic is slick... but if you don’t give me enough information to take a look at the origins of your data, I’m not going to take it seriously.

Cashless isn’t faster. Just saying.

Facts are established by checking against observation... and having one’s conclusion verified. It is called science. Those who are illogical or irrational have their “facts” challenged and discarded. That’s just the way it is.

One data point is *not* a trend.

Hope is not a strategy.

Objectivity is a myth.

I’m not likely to follow a leader. I am likely to follow on who gives me a reason to.

“I understand that’s what we are told we need to do to comply. That does not mean I have to agree it is best. No, I’m not being difficult; I’m summarizing loads of research. Yes, I will share it with you.” Is this too long to be a mantra?

“Bring defensive takes too much energy.” The wisest words I heard today.

Successful employees, employers, and entrepreneurs require “a combination of Complex Reasoning, Creativity, Socio-emotional Intelligence and Sensory Perception skills” but “today’s education and training systems are ill-equipped to build these skills”

What gave Homo sapiens an edge over all other animals and turned us into masters of the planet was not our individual rationality but our unparalleled ability to think in groups. -Yuval Noah Harari

*Label your axes.*