5 Keys To Effective Group Decision Making for Student Leaders
Recently, I read “The Wisdom of Crowds*” by James Surowiecki, and it got me thinking about the countless number of times I’ve held student group decision-making discussions that I thought were great, but in reality, and based on the research in this book, were pointless groupthink. Deliberation in a groupthink setting has the disturbing effect […]
A Guide to Facebook for School Faculty, Administration and Staff
“Should I, as an academic professional in higher education, have an online social networking account?” Yes, and here is why and how. The phenomenon of Myspace and Facebook snuck up on us like a freight train with a silent running motor. In just 4 years, social networking sites grew to over 300 million accounts with […]