by Mike Rollings | September 29, 2010 | Comments Off
Scientists have studied the human brain to make some amazing discoveries about the ability to learn, adapt, and relearn abilities lost resulting from brain trauma. The Brain Fitness Program — a public television program about brain plasticity, which is the lifelong ability of the brain to reorganize neural pathways based on new experiences—provides insight into [...]
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Category: Human Behavior Transformation Uncategorized Tags: Behavior, Communication, Empathy, Transformation
by Mike Rollings | September 15, 2010 | 2 Comments
My father was a barber but he was a specialist focused on grooming. Back in medieval days you could go to a barber for just about anything. You could receive a haircut, a shave, a blood letting, a tooth extraction, surgery… the barber could do it all. I’m sure there was confusion about the various [...]
Category: Management Strategic Planning Uncategorized Tags: IT Delivery, Transformation
by Mike Rollings | September 13, 2010 | 2 Comments
Over the weekend I watched Sugata Mitra’s TED.com video about child driven education. The whole video is worth viewing. At about 6:30 into the video, he describes an experiment with the hypothesis: “Can 12 year-old Tamil speaking children learn about bio-technology in two months through self-organized learning?” The result after 2 months is amazing. They [...]
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by Mike Rollings | September 8, 2010 | 1 Comment
The early part of September is filled with memories. My deceased aunt’s birthday, my deceased father’s birthday , and my birthday are all in the first part of September. Every year we would celebrate our collective birthdays on Labor Day weekend with a family barbeque. Labor Day also has additional significance since my father and [...]
Category: Transformation Uncategorized Tags: Behavior, Empathy
