Week 2:1<\/p>\n
KTP meeting:<\/p>\n
How many KTP\u2019s have been awarded by Business School (or is that to<\/em> NUBS) recently?\u00a0 One.\u00a0 And that is to an academic who has now relocated.\u00a0 Fiona\u2019s mention of this specific point means that maybe specific champions are needed in areas of expertise for KTP\u2019s to start and then grow.\u00a0 Did Chris Hicks have a bad experience with KTP\u2019s a long time ago (before Fiona)?\u00a0 Management of KTP\u2019s seems very well known \u2013 the project management of everything from the project proposal to the funders and advertising for researcher and all of that is all done by the KTP unit.<\/p>\n Joanna says that Teesside Business School manages to achieve 20 KTP\u2019s a year.\u00a0 Clearly some learning needs to be done on how they achieve this.<\/p>\n Fiona will send me case studies of past KTP\u2019s in the biosciences \/ medical and business.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Changing a mindset is changing the status quo, changing the way that things are done.\u00a0 If one wants more people being entrepreneurial then at what point do we confront them with that change; where have the choice architects set up shop?<\/p>\n Where should messages be directed?\u00a0 What information is currently being shared and is the default setting good?<\/p>\n Can you tell that I am reading the book Nudge<\/a> ?\u00a0 Marvellous. \u00a0And the word always makes me think of Sylvia Plath\u2019s poem Mushrooms.<\/p>\n \u201cMushrooms<\/p>\n Overnight, very Our toes, our noses Nobody sees us, Soft fists insist on Even the paving. Perfectly voiceless, Diet on water, Little or nothing. We are shelves, we are Nudgers and shovers We shall by morning Sylvia Plath<\/p>\n \u201c<\/p>\n Which really sums up the background nature of the means of communication that is missed out on.\u00a0 Communication is happening anyhow.<\/p>\n And whether we plan the order in which information is made available or how the choices are presented… there is a default.\u00a0 And the default has power.<\/p>\n Leadership training takes place for the MBA students later this week.\u00a0 I may be able to attend some sessions.\u00a0 But first… tomorrow I start writing case studies and while that may not sound like fun \u2013 I will add marshmallows \u2013 and do some writing \u2013 and get to know new nodes on the branching tree which is my new business home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Week 2:1 KTP meeting: How many KTP\u2019s have been awarded by Business School (or is that to NUBS) recently?\u00a0 One.\u00a0 And that is to an academic who has now relocated.\u00a0 Fiona\u2019s mention of this specific point means that maybe specific champions are needed in areas of expertise for KTP\u2019s to start and then grow.\u00a0 Did … Continue reading Changing a mindset – Changing the status quo<\/span>
\nWhitely, discreetly,
\nVery quietly<\/p>\n
\nTake hold on the loam,
\nAcquire the air.<\/p>\n
\nStops us, betrays us;
\nThe small grains make room.<\/p>\n
\nHeaving the needles,
\nThe leafy bedding,<\/p>\n
\nOur hammers, our rams,
\nEarless and eyeless,<\/p>\n
\nWiden the crannies,
\nShoulder through holes. We<\/p>\n
\nOn crumbs of shadow,
\nBland-mannered, asking<\/p>\n
\nSo many of us!
\nSo many of us!<\/p>\n
\nTables, we are meek,
\nWe are edible,<\/p>\n
\nIn spite of ourselves.
\nOur kind multiplies:<\/p>\n
\nInherit the earth.
\nOur foot’s in the door.<\/p>\n