Recently in Management Category
Typically, Google Book Search has not been high on my list of sites that I regularly use to search for content. However, recently I have had very good luck with searching this site. Over at Learning to Change Business, a blog that I write on executive education, you will notice that I have been doing research on the Mars Pathfinder mission. Google books actually produced excellent results for this query and I found two or three books on the subject that had not turned up in other sites.
Today's post at Google Operating System entitled Quantity Over Quality at Google Book Search explains a bit more about the status of the product and some of the problems associated with producing the site. I have not found a downloadable book yet, but the citations have been helpful.
As noted here, the lack of a compelling vision is the most likely obstacle for getting innovative ideas implemented.
Mind the Gap: "That's because there's a yawning void in most organizations between idea generation and actual implementation". If this gap exists in businesses, it's certainly worse in academic environments. Not all ideas can be implemented - resources, time, expertise, willingness, and how well the idea is connected to leadership impact the likelihood for success. I genuinely feel that our current problems with education are not due to lack of ideas. The missing element: lack of compelling vision. Most instructors are doing the best they can within the constraints of their work. What is generally needed is the structure of effective functioning (i.e. the ideals to which we aspire as education). If educators have a voice in the creation of those principles, the ensuing change is much more personal and intentional. [elearnspace]
