Edible Games!

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 »

Teachable moments in a business game

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 »

Experiential learning – using fewer words

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 »

Experiential learning and training quotes

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 »

Fear of Finance

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 »

Guest Author: Using a Business Simulation in Israel

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 »