One of the real challenges is to innovate fundamentally in education. Innovation is hard because it means doing something that people don’t find very easy for the most part. It means challenging what we take for granted, things that we think are obvious. The great problem for reform or transformation is the tyranny of common sense, things that people think, “Well, it can’t be done any other way because that’s the way it’s done.”

We have to go from what is essentially an industrial model of education, a manufacturing model, which is based on linearity and conformity and batching people. We have to move to a model that is based more on principles of agriculture. We have to recognize that human flourishing is not a mechanical process, it’s an organic process. And you cannot predict the outcome of human development; all you can do, like a farmer, is create the conditions under which they will begin to flourish.

Bill Whittle, on PJTV, recently ran a story about how America is neither about what the opinion makers on the East coast or the myth makers on the West coast tell us. Instead, America is about the goodness of the everyday American people.

Best Selling Author David Allen is founder and President of The David Allen Company and a renowned lecturer on ‘relaxed productivity.’ In the last twenty years he has developed and implemented productivity improvement programs for over a half million professionals in hundreds of organizations worldwide.

Click here to view a live lecture given to google employees.

In a first-of-its-kind initiative, HarperCollins Publishers has made the full content of Go It Alone! available free for readers at this Web site. You can access the life-changing ideas in this book, at no cost, by clicking here.

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Click here to view the Last Lecture as given on Oprah

Quiet adjectives about leadership! A plesant reminder that: ”A leader is the one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” - John Maxwell

Dr. Williams is an American economist and college professor at George Mason University. He is also a syndicated columnist and author known for his libertarian and sometimes conservative views. (Enjoy the Video clip)

TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader. A good example of those who are doing good business and their slogan is: ”TED Ideas Worth Spreading.” www.ted.com

A lesson in sportsmanship, and leadership from girls softball players Mallory Holtman (Central Washington University) and Sara Tucholsky (Western Oregon University.) Enjoy the video!

Entrepreneurs know that business survival statistics aren’t in their favor, but that’s all part of the game. Here’s a look at a few individuals who failed in their early attempts but who also went on to become renowned successes. (Enjoy the video clip.)