During the last few weeks of December and the first part of January, I spend time reflecting on the year and setting my intentions and goals for the next. As part of this process, I re-read all of my Monday…
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Last week, tens of millions of students in more than 180 countries participated in the Hour of Code, a global movement by Computer Science Education Week and Code.org. The Hour of Code’s intent isn’t to help you learn to code in one…
Better people make better All Blacks —All Blacks’ rallying cry I know almost nothing about rugby except that it is sort of like the American version of football (at least the ball looks similar and there is a lot of tackling…
I’ve talked before about the importance of company culture; here at The Learning House, we’ve spent the last year studying the principles of Primed to Perform: How to Build the Highest Performing Cultures Through the Science of Total Motivation. A key…
Twice per year, on Memorial Day and Veterans Day, I make sure to take time to sit in silence and just be grateful to all those men and women who’ve defended our country over the years. In Israel, on Yom…
I just finished a book called Scrappy: A Little Book About Choosing to Play Big by Terri L. Sjodin, and I couldn’t help but think that scrappiness is an important component of a growth mindset. Scrappiness is a big part…
I love reading about entrepreneurs. Entrepreneur stories are, for me, a little like fairy tales: Someone like Mark Zuckerberg or Steve Jobs starts a business in their garage and, as if by magic, it becomes a Facebook or an Apple….
In business, we have an unfortunate tendency to make generalizations. I know I’m guilty of this too. To combat this, I’ve made an informal rule with my team: If you’re going to make a generalization, back it up with data. The…
El Guapo: Well, you told me I have a plethora. And I just would like to know if you know what a plethora is. I would not like to think that a person would tell someone he has a plethora,…
As the NBA season starts to get underway in a few weeks, I am excited about a few things: the chances of my favorite team, the New York Knicks, and the possibility of the league finally doing something about its…
I wanted to take a minute this week and talk about teamwork. More eloquent people than me have covered this topic extensively, from Marcus Aurelius in ancient Rome to Viktor Frankl after World War II and, more recently, authors like…
For the past year or so, I’ve been pushing the Learning House team (including myself) to consider our brand and better understand who we are and who we want to be. We developed the Learning House Way, redefined our mission…
As the Unstoppable Course turns one, I wanted to reflect on what we have learned from the course over the past year. What Is The Unstoppable Course? As a quick refresher, we decided to incorporate a course, boldly named the…
Over time, my views on ego have shifted. Where once I thought ego was always bad, now I think the concept of ego is misunderstood. My first memories of understanding ego were hearing references to someone having a “big ego,”…
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face…
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