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Olympian Leadership Lessons in Peak Performance

The Practical Leader

Later this month, the 2012 Summer Olympic Games get underway in London, England. Coubertin felt that could be a model for international cooperation and rechanneling competition more constructively. The official 2012 Olympics web site features their logo along with the slogan, “Inspire a Generation.”

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Why Your Employees Should Be Playing With Lego Robots

Harvard Business Review

Ericsson used Lego Mindstorm robots in a demonstration at the 2012 Mobile World Congress to bring to life its vision of how connected machines might change the way we live. Moreover, constructionism asserts that people learn with particular effectiveness when they are engaged in “constructing” personally meaningful artifacts.