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Sunday, February 26, 2012

The Human Potential Business - Arlington, VA, United States, ASCD EDge Blog post - A Professional Networking Community for Educators

The Human Potential Business - Arlington, VA, United States, ASCD EDge Blog post - A Professional Networking Community for Educators:

Looking Ahead

The Human Potential Business

We are in education. We aren’t in the happiness business or the customer service business or the product development business. We’re in the human potential business. We are so NOT one-size-fits-all, standardized assembly-line, profit-driven bottom line, nine-to-five clock punchers. We are people-centric, in-the-moment, altruistic, roll-up-our-sleeves, touch-the-future, idealists who support children as they learn and grow into thriving, vibrant, happy successful members of a global society.

No two days are alike. We are constantly learning and living new experiences. Anytime we start to get comfortable there’s a new challenge or opportunity that shakes us up and pushes our thinking. Human potential is not a commodity or a market or a destination; it’s a journey. And each of us can tell the story of the many lives we have influenced along the way…and the way those lives have influenced us. We may not always see the longterm impact of our efforts on these young lives, but that’s the understanding we have working with human potential…it’s a promise…yet to be fulfilled.

While we’re not business-people, the human potential business is…well…a business.