Subject: Summary - How Do We Think About Models

Posted by Niall Palfreyman on 1/28/2010
In Reply To:Summary - How Do We Think About Models Posted by Bill Braun on 1/27/2010

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Bill Braun schrieb:
> What I was thinking, but did not articulate, was imagining some school
> board people I personally know (and CEOs of organizations) and
> imagining their response to a story about bugs (to take nothing from
> the story itself). It would fall flat, and my moment of influence
> would be lost. I'm fairly certain that if I were to say to Ron, a
> member of our school board, "I have some thoughts on removing the
> barriers to peak learning and raising test scores, do you have 20
> minutes?", he would say yes.
Sounds to me like a great way of matching your audience. I wish I knew how to talk proper business-speak like that - it would certainly make my job easier sometimes.

By the way, if you're serious about the possibility of using a story, how about a gambit something like "You know, I was thinking about a case I came across in a Wisconsin school a couple of years ago, where ..." ?

Best wishes,
Niall.