Moral discussions With sincerity, one teacher shouted “Let’s all set low standards!” in a recent professional development workshop. We were playing House of Cards, a simple, but powerful EnTeam concept game focused on creative thinking. Teammates are given index cards and instructed to build the tallest tower possible. EnTeam Organization measures the cooperative [...]
EnTeam means learning to win together-- in other words, learning to reach goals on a win-win basis. I am often asked how we came up with the name "EnTeam." EnTeam is all about carefully examining definitions to words we use regularly but sometimes neglect to think about deeply. For example, people use the words "learning" [...]
General David Petraeus defined winning in a radically different way than past generals: Winning is achieving your objectives. (Petraeus, 2010) Although Petraeus is talking about how to win a war with the Taliban in Afghanistan, he is making a point that relates to many challenges in life: We win when we succeed in reaching our goals. If [...]
Like most children, my kids enjoyed playing soccer, basketball, baseball and other team sports when they were young. Sometimes, when a qualified coach was not available, I would coach their teams. During those years, my job was preparing market studies and teaching economics – especially the benefits of competitive markets. Most of my work was [...]
By Ted Wohlfarth Kids love to correct adults. A group of middle school students gleefully told me I was wrong when I said the number pi = 3.1416. And I was impressed that they could recite the value of pi to 7 decimal places. The value of pi came up because we were comparing [...]