By Craig Prichard email: C.Prichard@massey.ac.nz I spent last weekend at the 'Creativity Challenge', a two day conference on things artistic, self-helpful and activistic held in the always awesome, Taranaki. The...Read more
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A MOOC Experience
May 9, 2013
Last weekend I was a student again. For the first time in 27 years I was in a course as a student with an assignment due by 4.00pm on Sunday. Here I record a few thoughts about my first MOOC experience. A MOOC is a massive open online course. The key word here is open – open enrolment to anyone with an Internet connection, utilising open educational resources on the Web and open participation via discussion forms, Twitter feeds and Google Hangout. I don’t know how massive this MOOC was, but probably more than 10,000 learners from around the world. This MOOC was Surviving Disruptive Technologies, taught by Professor Hank Lucas of the University of Maryland. This was not a traditional university course time commitment – only 7...Read more
Encourage them to run? The wisdom of teaching unemployed beneficiaries self-employment skills
March 19, 2013
In a recent post, Dr Cardow criticised Paula Bennett’s employment training programmes for unemployed beneficiaries. Given “the absence of employment opportunities that is at the core of the problem” he suggested the Minister for Social Welfare...Read more
Hey Bennett!: How about teaching beneficiaries to be bosses?
March 14, 2013
Paula Bennett has claimed that giving beneficiaries two weeks work in the census call centre is an indication of the success of her government policies in the welfare area. At the same time she also admitted there were not enough jobs to go...Read more
Mainzeal’s Director Desertion
February 8, 2013
"The sky is falling"," run to the hills", "it must be another case of industrial disease" all sentiments heard while watching the inevitable fall of Mainzeal. This is the time when many will wring their hands and look to for someone to blame. I cant...Read more
The Demise of the Fat Capitalist?
January 24, 2013
In January this story featured in the Wall Street Journal. Entitled "Want to be CEO? What's your BMI?" it tells of the 'new' requirement for Chief Executives to be slim, trim and ready for (business) warfare. It even features aspiring business...Read more
Is Forbes ranking papering over the cracks?
November 26, 2012
Recently Forbes magazine published its rankings of the best country in the world for ‘business’. New Zealand topped the list this year, moving up from second place in 2011. In constructing this ranking Forbes uses the following factors: Property...Read more
The Leadership Challenge
November 2, 2012
I teach a postgraduate course called Leading and Changing Organisations. One of the key parts of this course is to help the students understand how they can critically assess the many multitudes of books available that claim to have figured out...Read more
Respecting history during Organisational Change
October 12, 2012
Disclaimer: I am not a current ANZ or National Bank customer! Recently ANZ announced plans to discontinue the National Bank brand. ANZ acquired The National Bank almost a decade ago and has been running the two brands as separate entities, but...Read more
Obesity bias in promotion?
October 5, 2012
Is there an obesity bias in promotion decisions? We could have to conclude that, on balance, there probably is. Unfortunately this relates to society's general negative attitude towards fat people - on all levels. It is commonly known by...Read more
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