Category: entrepreneur

NEW…! Don’t Bring A Whiteboard Marker To A Knife Fight

Dec 8, 2019

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Graeme Smith

in Education, Education delivery model, Education resources, educator, Educator’s Journey, entrepreneur, Executive Education, Export Education, International education, The rise of the educator-entrepreneur

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Two Days at Te Whare Ruruhau: A Taste of Wild Perfection

Sep 12, 2019

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Graeme Smith

in Education, entrepreneur, Maori

If you want to be inspired, then get out into nature. The more remote, the better. My friend Doug manages a Māori trust that looks after 6,950 hectares of mountainous terrain nestled between the Kaimanawa and Kaweka Forests in the central North Island of New Zealand. Recently, it was my great pleasure and privilege to…
Buy my latest eBook…! How to think like an entrepreneur when you work in education

Sep 7, 2018

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Graeme Smith

in Education, Education resources, educator, Educator’s Journey, entrepreneur, Executive Education, The rise of the educator-entrepreneur

My latest ebook is live this morning on Amazon…! This one has cartoons. You should probably buy it just for the cartoons. If you don’t like cartoons then you probably shouldn’t buy it. Even if you don’t like cartoons you might want to think more like an entrepreneur if you work in education.
Embrace the tension: The rise of the educator entrepreneur

Sep 6, 2018

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Graeme Smith

in Critical Thinking, Disrupt, Disruption, Education, educator, Educator’s Journey, entrepreneur, teacher, Teachers, The rise of the educator-entrepreneur, work

Watch this space… coming out soon…!
How do you think like an entrepreneur when you work in education?

Sep 1, 2018

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Graeme Smith

in Education, educator, Educator’s Journey, entrepreneur, The rise of the educator-entrepreneur

Excerpt from new eBook out shortly Education is a tough business to work in. And that holds true if you are a tutor, a trainer, or any kind of specialist educator. Or a business owner…. Or all of the above like me. I’m pretty excited about what I do, but some days I can’t understand…
Four Tools For Building Cool Stuff Online: Or How To Start Thinking Outside The Box

Oct 10, 2015

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Graeme Smith

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I went to the Supercharge conference the other day in Wellington. This was a business conference… nothing to do with literacy, numeracy or even education (I know… thank goodness right…?) Lots of cool stuff. The coolest though was the 40-minute presentation by Justin Wilcox of Customer Development Labs. At the start of his presentation, he…
Career Planning 101: My Daughter Won’t Be Your Corporate Drone

Aug 29, 2015

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Graeme Smith

in 2.0, Career, Corporate, Daughter, Drone, entrepreneur, Future, Kids, planning, work

I can’t vouch for the complete accuracy of this transcript. But it went something like this. Teacher: “So what are you going to do for a career dear?” Daughter (14): “Oh, I don’t know… Nothing. Everything.” Teacher: “That’s not an answer. What do you mean?” Daughter (14): “Sit on a beach somewhere. Work as a…
What do entrepreneurs do that you could do if you work in education? Part 3: Tools

Jul 2, 2015

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Graeme Smith

in 2.0, Adult, Adult Learning, Adults, ALEC, Ed, Edtech, Education, edupreneur, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, entrepreneur, Gear, Literacy and Numeracy, NCALNE, Professional Development, Qualifications

Tools for your (mostly) digital toolbox The other day I outlined some of the ideas, approaches, and tools that I’ve started using in my work in education that have made my life easier and more manageable. Mostly, I’ve borrowed these concepts and tools from the world of start ups, entrepreneurship, and design. Then I suggested a short…
What do entrepreneurs do that you could do if you work in education? Part 2: Self assessment

Jun 30, 2015

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Graeme Smith

in 21204, Adult Learning, Adults, ALEC, Business model generation, Edtech, Education, Education resources, edupreneur, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, entrepreneur, Literacy and Numeracy, NCALNE, Professional Development, Qualifications

In my last post I discussed some of the things that I’ve borrowed from entrepreneurial and design thinking. These have worked successfully for me and allowed me to gradually change how I think about my work and allowed me to survive and thrive in a chaotic and uncertain work environment. Like I also said, this…
What do entrepreneurs do that you could do if you work in education? Part 1: Ideas, concepts, tools

Jun 29, 2015

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Graeme Smith

in 2.0, ALEC, Edtech, Education, edupreneur, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, entrepreneur, Literacy and Numeracy, NCALNE, Professional Development, Qualifications

Literacy and numeracy is a tough business to work in due to the increasing demands of… well, everything. I have a conference workshop coming up soon and I’m going to argue that one of the things that has worked well for me (in terms of daily survival) is training myself to think and act more…