Comments on: The Cost of Praising Intelligence http://crawdaddycove.com/2007/02/17/praising-effort-vs-praising-ability/ Insights and ideas on personal impact, parenthood, education, and sports from the Vice President of Red Sox Nation. Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:38:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: dan page http://crawdaddycove.com/2007/02/17/praising-effort-vs-praising-ability/#comment-581 Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:16:05 +0000 http://crawdaddycove.com/2007/02/17/praising-effort-vs-praising-ability/#comment-581 Rob, my friend,

found myself with moments on my hand as I tried to add my name to the lidst of songwriters on Wikapedia and stumbled across past blogs. they are insightful, quirky, creative, thoughtful, and filled with a sense of respect for your kids, your friends, your co-workers, and people who work at what they do. All good.

Just thought I’d let you know. Time to write some songs.

keep on blogging. the world needs you.

Dan

]]> By: The Old Man http://crawdaddycove.com/2007/02/17/praising-effort-vs-praising-ability/#comment-188 Mon, 19 Feb 2007 16:32:15 +0000 http://crawdaddycove.com/2007/02/17/praising-effort-vs-praising-ability/#comment-188 Mr. Crawford: Re. “Rules and Results.”
The point, because I know you, is legitimate. But process, protocol, tranparency, patience and persuasion build confidence, trust, gain adherents and often change the rules magnifying sought results.
My friend George W. Bush likes to do away with protocols, like respect for the balance of power; he writes signing statements on legislation he disagrees with, saying in effect, “I’ll do it my way, the devil with yours:” he breaks the law, agreeing with Nixon, “Whatever the Presdient does is legal.”
The breaking of protocols is frequently the practice of what we in the institutional business call, “loose canons,” they can bring creativity, imagination, new vision – of course. But they can also break up and put the brakes on more smoothly functioning teams, causing static and chaff in the gears. Careful.
I do like Crawdaddy Cove.
Cordially yours,
The Old Man
P.S. The Cost of Praising Intelligence – a shrewd insight and the T-shirt illustration: excellent!

]]> By: Kristin http://crawdaddycove.com/2007/02/17/praising-effort-vs-praising-ability/#comment-187 Mon, 19 Feb 2007 15:35:00 +0000 http://crawdaddycove.com/2007/02/17/praising-effort-vs-praising-ability/#comment-187 Hmm! That’s good for thought. I got that “way to be smart” message from kindergarten through high school, probably because I am a good test-taker. But the only thing it taught me was that I could make it by the seat of my pants with minimal effort. Bad message! That’s one of the big downsides of standardized testing. Standardized testing does NOT measure or reward effort, discipline, or organizational/time management skills. Glad I’m not a public school teacher, because I’d be extremely frustrated by “No Child Left Behind” and the trend toward even more standardized testing. Wrong direction!

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