by David Goldring | Mar 13, 2012 | Article, Education
There’s a great scene in Back to the Future (one of my favourite films) where you see the machine Doc Brown has constructed to feed his dog Einstein. It’s ludicrously, preposterously complicated. Such machines have a name: Rube Goldberg machines, after the American...
by David Goldring | Nov 28, 2011 | Education, Leadership, Learning, Uncategorized
This weekend a number of challenging conversations led us to ponder how we can support colleagues and clients to use business tools to express themselves and reach their full potential. It was 11am in London, and a worried mother shot me a dagger look as I passed a...
by David Goldring | Sep 16, 2011 | Education, Leadership, Learning, Lumina, Uncategorized
It’s been an exhilarating experience being part of the new Free School experiment sweeping the UK – we’re a community with the opportunity to build a school that reflects our values and ethos, and this week the doors of Eden Primary opened. Ziggy (our four year old)...
by David Goldring | Feb 21, 2011 | Education, Learning, Other
I am looking forward to seeing the Kings Speech after meeting up with Andy Green last week. Andy has written an interesting article for us on what we can learn as trainers from the film. One of these, “Be brave and be prepared to walk away” resonates...
by Steven | Dec 8, 2010 | Education
I’ve just left Mollie’s (my 5 year old daughter) school festive play. Correct, it is no longer called a nativity play, perhaps because it is no longer the nativity story. In fact Jesus was conspicuous by his absence! They put on a take on ‘The Snowman’. There is no...