Jon Foster-Pedley's Page

Yes they are - according to David Kirsh and Brent Goldfarb of the University of Maryland after studying 700 start-ups - see the short video. “Spending time and energy tweaking your business plan is a waste of resources. It’s a limited-use document that will in no way substitute for the hard work of actually building a business. You’re better off investing in your idea, your social network, finding potential i… Continue

I can't believe it but it's true - we really do still use the bell curve to manage assessment at schools and universities. OK - I get the logic about rigour and standards, but it is a dumb, old world logic in my view. My thing about the bell-curve is this - 1 standard deviation (1 sigma - 68% of the population) are deemed 'average' so only 16% can possibly be A's... and isn't it mainly the same driven few who obsess for the A's - so everyone else stops trying or believes they can't do well... an… Continue

Repeated from Juliet Pitman at http://www.siliconcape.com/profiles/blogs/live-blogging-at-silicon-cape - thanks Juliet

12:15 Premier Helen Zille

[I can't possibly do justice to the Premier's address so have simply transcribed parts of it here below to share it with others who couldn't be here. It was truly inspiring]

"I do like to avoid cliches but I do have to say that when we look back in t… Continue

A new book. 'Creating We', by Judith Glaser with a chapter contribution by Huddleminder… Continue

Barry Schwartz's revitalising TEDtalk on wisdom, choice and re-moral-izing and re-morale-izing life set me up for a great day this morning...
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