This Focused Performance Weblog is a "business management blog" containing links and commentary related primarily to organizational effectiveness with a "Theory of Constraints" perspective. TOC is noted for its applications in Project Management and Multi-Project Management (Critical Chain) and Operations Management (Drum-Buffer-Rope), as well as in Marketing, Strategic Planning and Change Management (TOC Thinking Processes). If you are on an archive page, current postings are found here.
The Global Virtual Classroom is a free online educational program to promote communication, collaboration and understanding among students around the world. Combined with cross-border and cross cultural interaction, these are all skills necessary for success in our flattening world.
We're entering the third year of the GVC's current incarnation. (It used to be the AT&T Virtual Classroom in the late 90s, but is now run by my sister and brother-in-law's Give Something Back International Foundation.) The cornerstone of every year's efforts is a contest in which teams of three schools (ideally from three different continents) collaborate online to build websites of their own design.
If you've got kids, maybe their schools/teachers might be interested in participating. Send them to the GVC site, in which they can find an application for participation in the contest.
If you've got a blog, and if you've appreciated some of the things you've read here in Focused Performance or in Unfocused, you can help by passing this info along to your readers.
If you live in South or Central America, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, or Asia, your support in spreading the word to your local network is all the more valuable in helping us achieve a greater diversity of participation than last year.
OK. Enough begging. Please, just check it out via the links above and see if you think it's worth your support in the form a simple post or pass-along. Thank you.
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