In 2014, Tides hired its fourth CEO in four years. Founded in 1976, Tides’ legacy as a progressive provider of services and programming for philanthropists and nonprofits worldwide had fallen behind, ...

Not long ago, "business acumen" was a commonly requested corporate training program. Historically, when companies requested business acumen training, the training was highly focused on financial ...

According to an April 2022 Gallup article, "U.S. Employee Engagement Slump Continues," only 32% of full- and part-time employees are engaged, while 17% are actively disengaged. This lack of employee ...

I did not expect to begin my sixth year of teaching standing baffled before a folding table covered with tin foil, pipe cleaners, and mysterious mini-motors, but I suppose that I shouldn’t have been ...

Love it or hate it, many teachers have seen just how much technology has changed the landscape of education. Within this rapidly changing landscape, teachers have taken on a role much different from ...

Design thinking is great in concept, but there must be some planning around the execution. Recently, I wrote about how to put design thinking into action, covering what design thinking is, some of the ...

As someone who had never taken a d.school class, when I heard the words “design thinking” they seemed to conjure a single image of rainbow Post-its. On the Post-its floated buzzwords that meant little ...

Commentary Creating New Solutions to Old Challenges: Design Thinking in the Law Innovation is a buzzword that many in the legal industry use as a way to describe their approach to solving legal ...

An approach that promised to democratize design may have done the opposite. When Kyle Cornforth first walked into IDEO’s San Francisco offices in 2011, she felt she had entered a whole new world. At ...