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MLK program "Painting the Seed, Growing the Seed," will be from 2 to 4:30 p.m. at the Evie Dennis Campus Building, 1 West Commons, 4800 Teluride St., Denver. The keynote speaker will be John Hope Bryant. Music selections: First Lady of Denver Mary Hancock (Mary Louise Lee); solo selection, Sia Chandler. Info: Sylvia Bookhardt,Sylvia_bookhardt@dpsk12.org, 303-229-1997, or Ani Reddy,Reddy@dpsk12.org, 970-310-4526.
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John Hope Bryant is a thought leader, founder, chairman and CEO of Operation HOPE and Bryant Group Companies, Inc. Magazine/CEO READ bestselling business author of LOVE LEADERSHIP: The New Way to Lead in a Fear-Based World (Jossey-Bass) the only African-American bestselling business author in America, and a Member of the U.S. President’s Advisory Council on Financial Capability for President Barack Obama. Mr. Bryant is the co-founder of the Gallup-HOPE Index, the only national research poll on youth financial dignity and youth economic energy in the U.S. He is also a co-founder of Global Dignity with HRH Crown Prince Haakon of Norway and Professor Pekka Himanen of Finland. Global Dignity is affiliated with the Forum of Young Global Leaders and the World Economic Forum.
The only problem with pioneers, is the first guy through the gate is going to get bloody. I got the inspiration to write about this from the movie Money Ball, but it is applicable to every endeavor in life where and when you are breaking new ground.
This applied to the true story of Billy Beane who led the Oakland A's to a historic 20-game winning streak, and then on to a World Series win using a model that everyone said rewrote the rules of baseball. They also said it could not be done, and fought him tooth and nail. And right after his 20-game winning streak, all the "experts" in baseball called him and his approach a mere aberration. One point of their reasoning here is simple -- everyone else had a vested interest in keeping things just the way they were. My guess is that the future lies somewhere between the two approaches; with a respect for the analytics and the instinctive.
I am reminded of a great quote by my friend former President Bill Clinton; "it is hard to get someone to agree with the truth, when the lie is paying their paycheck."
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Today I had the distinct pleasure of giving the keynote speech before the 1st annual conference of virtual learning instructors from school districts throughout the state of Florida.
Florida, I was pleased to learn, is the only state in the nation that both offers virtual K-12 education to every child in the state, and if you are a low-wealth family without resources, the state will insure that you have both a computer at your home and Internet access.
Virtual schools exist alongside traditional brick and mortar schools, and with the 21st century job market inter-connected with the information age, the technology age, and whatever comes next in the global economy -- knowledge of computing and access to the Internet is so critically important.
Newt Gingrich's politics are not my own, but there have been flashes of brilliance, and generally I have always considered him to be one of the most intelligent "thinkers" within the Republican Party. Even my friend former President Bill Clinton said as much in recent public comments, and Mr. Clinton has good reason to be more than a little hesitant about Mr. Gingrich.
You could agree with him, or passionately disagree with him, and maybe even question intent with respect to some of his actions while in public office. This said, generally speaking I cannot remember ever saying he sounded just plain dumb. Comments by Mr. Gingrich two weeks ago, unfortunately, changed that for me.
Recently the former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, took a pretty smart public policy idea -- that of encouraging the economic energy of all of America's young people -- and turned it into a pretty dumb political stunt. Worse, it was a political stunt that spoke down, and into the dark well of some of the worse aspects of human prejudice. That unspoken bias and belief that '... there's nothing wrong in limiting the aspirations of little black and brown kids to being say... a janitor in America.'
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John Hope Bryant: Love Leadership: The New Way to Lead in a Fear-Based World
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