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The Greater Good |
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As they are completed, thumbnails of white papers will be added, with links to blog posts and lengthier white papers when done. This way, you can find what interests you and drill deeper where you choose to.
Based on the brief descriptions of the topics, what would you like to see addressed?
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Under Construction: What to Expect |
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The concept of best practices is based on finding something good no matter the source, making the connection to your world and running with it. A best practices focus is the basic principle behind the Greater Good which proposes that business and industry issues and solutions are absolutely relevant to larger arenas: society, local government, community, education.
The Greater Good examines applying concepts, principles, tools and techniques from the worlds of business and industry to society, community, local government, education, individual excellence et al. In my opinion, we all thrive on striving for the greater good!
Community leaders, positional and influential: local government officials, non-profit entities, education professionals, leaders of the religious community...per the premise of the Greater Good, the organizations you lead or are involved with are businesses that need flawless execution, and need constituents who are aligned and fully engaged just as much as Ford Motor Company needs those things.
Intriguing: the concept of crossover engagement which is relatively new, not much research. But it’s too common sense to wait for the data: if I am highly engaged at work, chances are I am more likely to be highly engaged outside of work. And vice versa.
The importance: it doesn’t matter where you enter the high engagement loop, the impacts are much broader than we may realize. |
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The Greater Good: What and Why |
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Engagement and School (2 links below) |
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Tribes and Socialization An older post in need of serious re-tooling as I have poked around a whole lot deeper into this. Where have all the great socializing influences gone, and where do norms and social expectations come from now? What are the real impacts, social costs, workplace implications of the norms void? Stay posted….. |
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This was triggered by a story David Zinger shared with me about explaining the finer points of social media with traditional rural folks at Carla’s Café and how he finally connected. David’s café story morphed into “New Neighboring Norms”…a nostalgic look back at the norm of neighboring I grew up, and a somber look at what we’ve become. Again, connection is the moral of the story—with your family members, neighbors, co-workers, yourself. |
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Engagement has everything to do with connecting, a couple of examples explored here: a deep connection with a WWII vet, and a song unfinished. These were both an external event or stimulus, magnified by an intense emotional connection. Maybe too intense to be relevant for workplace engagement? But how powerful would it be if we could be driven by even a small fraction of that level of connection, at work or any other activity, or in our lives? |
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America’s Promise, Crisis in Education. From America’s Alliance: “Many students who ultimately drop out of school say they become disengaged during the middle-school years. The choices young people make at this age could set them on a course for active citizenship and engaged learning – or down a path of risky behavior and potential failure.” Engagement Goes to School? …high school kids are disengaged in both their education and in thinking about their future. This hypothesis is well-founded: try Googling “National Survey of Student Engagement.” For many students, education is perceived to be irrelevant to their future. The underlying issue: students are not engaged in any kind of “future thinking” to even know what is, and isn’t relevant to them. An even deeper issue…teachers, and parents too, are also disengaged. Just wanted to throw that in to cause trouble. And it IS a generalization, there are exceptions. So please don’t beat me up too much. |
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History is a subject to which many high school students fail to make the connection. Who cares what a bunch of dead people did?
I learned to care, at a deep level, through digging around in my roots cellar...I embraced history this time around, became personally connected with all that distant, previously meaningless history crap. I have successfully validated where I came from, and where WE come from as well. I have a better understanding of the dynamics that shaped our world. I’ve become a (“gasp!!!) closet historian, because I am now personally connected with all those people and events in the books. I will always have a deep appreciation for history, which totally bored me in school. There is a lesson to be learned here. |
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Flawless Execution Through High Engagement, Alignment, Communication and Systems |