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Tool Time
Teaching a class in Strategic Management and consulting in this area to colleges and universities and companies in the higher education space, I’m asked a lot about various tools and techniques that can be effective in diagnosing problems and generating ideas/solutions, and the answer is that there are many. Perhaps too many.
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Is It a Conflict to Assign Your Own Book?
Exploring an issue raised in the comments to the first post: the question of faculty-authored textbooks.
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International Intellectual Property Enforcement - III
Last week a colleague at Cornell asked me to give a talk to his class on intellectual property. I found myself explaining the historical dynamics behind the American Revolution, Constitution and a free-market political economy. "Unless you were a pirate," I said, "you could not trade anywhere in the world from England without a license." Another quote: "The first law to establish exclusive rights, a monopoly in copyright, dates back to 1557 when Elizabeth I squelched counterfeiters use the new technology, the printing press, to manufacture fraudulent documents for everything, including Royal charters to trade.
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Conquering Writing Anxiety
Three fears need to be understood and then defeated, writes Nate Kreuter.
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Lessons From Swiss Watch-Makers
Higher education, facing many challenges, needs to focus more on brand equity, writes Robert J. Sternberg.
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Ask the Administrator: Discerning Culture from the Outside
I love this question. A new correspondent writes: "Do you (or any of your wise and worldly readers) have any advice about looking for or finding clues to a college's culture, before you actually work there?"
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Gentrification in Higher Education
I've seen a change in the students in my classes. And I wonder if that's a good thing.
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Building Your Own Memex
Albert Einstein is said to have explained that he didn't memorize things that could be easily looked up. "[I do not] carry such information in my mind since it is readily available in books," he said. "The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think." I cannot remember something unless I've written it down. Therefore, having ubiquitous capture is key to my everyday life. A key part of my ubiquitous capture system includes a reference bank where I can draw on previously found, researched or created items and integrate them into my workflow. I refer to this as my "memex."