Learning should be fun. Games are fun! That’s why games are good for learning, and why Andromeda uses business simulation games to achieve the best learning results. (Best = fun, realistic, useful, rapid, thorough, memorable learning.) Now from Australia comes … Read More
In the last post Ana Leiderman talked about the reason teams will oversell their capacity, and how that becomes a teachable moment in the classroom. Here are a few more teachable-moment scenarios we noticed this week. The events occur spontaneously … Read More
The Lifeboat Foundation, an organization dedicated to the analysis and prevention of threats to human existence, has a blog post on the reduction of richness and complexity in language titled A Future of Fewer Words. It interests me because I … Read More
Maybe managing a business is like riding a unicycle: no amount of talking about it will build core competencies. If someone wants to get the hang of it, they have to do it. Recently Robin wrote about the importance of … Read More
“I learned him.” That’s a phrase that irritates a lot of people, even though the meaning is perfectly clear. It’s considered bad English because well-educated English-speakers have long favored a French or Latin analysis of the language, even though English … Read More
Some of my favorite quotes for training, and experiential learning in particular: First, the famous one from Confucius, “I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.” (The first sentence may be more accurately … Read More
As the new year creeps up on us, our inclination is to reflect back on the triumphs and failures of the previous twelve months. Magazines and newspapers are full of Ten Best and Ten Worst lists of all kinds. Political … Read More
This is becoming a recurring theme for us, in both the academic and corporate sectors; and our experience highlights the value of using a business simulation as a tool for finance skills training. At Coles College of Business, Dr. Alison … Read More
I would like to focus about the nature of the Israeli people and their business managers. You may say that Israel’s people, and Israeli managers, are constant arguers, bad planners, not good listeners etc. However they are also talented, practical, quick learners and flexible; born of long years … Read More
Over the next few days I will be posting a series of videos that look at why other people like our state-of-the-art board game business simulations. But first, I thought I should talk about why I like the simulations. The … Read More