Jason Gaulden sat down with Leslie Morse at the Business Agility Conference 2019 to talk about the Age of Agility on the Accenture | Solutions IQ Agile Amped podcast. Read more and listen to their conversation below. Jason Gaulden is…
Concert Review: Mandolin Orange at the Ogden Theater, Denver, Colorado, on March 16, 2019. By Tim Taylor Mandolin Orange is a bluegrass/Americana/folk duo made up of Andrew Marlin and Emily Frantz from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Now husband and wife,…
2018 was a big year for America Succeeds. America Succeeds was founded in 2012 with a vision of building an education system that prepares every student to succeed in the competitive global economy and contribute to their local community. Over…
Many companies invest in automation because the tax code encourages it, not because robots are more productive. This article, by Eduardo Porter, originally appeared in The New York Times on February, 23rd, 2019. (Photo Credit: Andy Rementer) When Bill Gates floated the…
This post originally appeared at The74million.org on January 23, 2019. View it here. Recently, Pathway 2 Tomorrow: Local Visions for America’s Future (P2T) announced the winners of its $100,000 Innovation Award for bold, transformative education solutions. One theme that emerged from among the 240…
This post originally appeared at GettingSmart.com on January 23, 2019. View it here and listen to the podcast! Like many newcomers to the Mile High City, Tim Taylor came for the quality of life. He launched a youth-serving nonprofit and quickly met business leaders interested in better…
In this insightful piece, writer David Cantor of The 74 notes: “success stories that involve parlaying a vocational certificate into middle-class security need more attention.” The team at America Succeeds could not agree more, and it’s a topic we tackled in our Age of…
The latest report from the National Council on the Teacher Quality is entitled Making a Difference: Six Places Where Teacher Evaluation Systems are Getting Results. This data and keen analysis makes the clear and compelling case that educator effectiveness policies—like holding…
Austin City Limits kicked-off Weekend One (of two consecutive weekends) of the 18th annual music festival at Zilker Park in Austin, Texas, on October 5-7, with one of the better line-ups in recent years. Despite a 30-60% chance of rain each…
Writing for Strategy Execution, PMO and agility aficionado Lindsay Scott shares her insights from the Agile Business Conference last month, which was hosted by the Agile Business Consortium. This year’s theme was Creating Generation Agile. In Scott’s piece—Agile and Agility: The…