Author, speaker and consultant Dan Coughlin has been a good friend of Smart Planet with regular contributions over the course of 2009 such as, 5 things NASCAR can teach us about business and 5 Ways to ...

When something is used for more than one purpose, it loses it power. Three examples can be found in lesson plans, observations/evaluations, and PowerPoint ...

British educators have been making use of 'value added' data for two decades. And still the task is challenging. “That is out of order. That’s not good enough,” pronounces Denise Davies, pointing to a ...

The value of hard work is something that I hope everyone has the opportunity to experience in their lifetime. I was blessed to be the son of very hardworking parents who never wanted anything given to ...

A post about a mother asking her 16-year-old daughter to pay her share of the cost of a swimming pool that was installed for her when she was 12 has gone viral on Reddit, where it received 12,700 ...

News out of Netflix this past week is an instructive reflection on brand value proposition. Earlier this year, there was an uproar among Netflix subscribers when the company announced it would no ...