Rob McKay
@rob-mckay.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Enterprise Practice at Manchester Metropolitan University- I work with business owners and managers to make working lives better. #andragogy #narrative #leadership #strategy #innovation
...and manages to crash land on the deck of the trireme.
Hollers all round. Let the dice fall where they may and generate the best narrative you can, and you'll never regret it.
Hollers all round. Let the dice fall where they may and generate the best narrative you can, and you'll never regret it.
November 4, 2025 at 1:34 PM
...and manages to crash land on the deck of the trireme.
Hollers all round. Let the dice fall where they may and generate the best narrative you can, and you'll never regret it.
Hollers all round. Let the dice fall where they may and generate the best narrative you can, and you'll never regret it.
...they find themselves in a dirigible hunting down a minor Boss Baddie plus henchmen pirating the Irish Sea aboard a steam powered trireme. A poor choice (trying for a lucky shot with a borrowed musket) followed by a snake eyes roll - dirigible aflame! Ace dirigible pilot rolls to try and save...
November 4, 2025 at 1:34 PM
...they find themselves in a dirigible hunting down a minor Boss Baddie plus henchmen pirating the Irish Sea aboard a steam powered trireme. A poor choice (trying for a lucky shot with a borrowed musket) followed by a snake eyes roll - dirigible aflame! Ace dirigible pilot rolls to try and save...
Fantastic. Epic moments either way make RPGs worthwhile - I ran a homebrew Steampunk game for some friends back in the summer. At the previous instalment my players had managed to accidentally shoot each other to various levels of seriousness during the Big Finale Battle. This time...
November 4, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Fantastic. Epic moments either way make RPGs worthwhile - I ran a homebrew Steampunk game for some friends back in the summer. At the previous instalment my players had managed to accidentally shoot each other to various levels of seriousness during the Big Finale Battle. This time...
Hi - this looks interesting, but is there a link to the report itself, rather than just the press release?
July 7, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Hi - this looks interesting, but is there a link to the report itself, rather than just the press release?
This is very sad news, a real retrograde step
June 25, 2025 at 11:17 AM
This is very sad news, a real retrograde step
... "Instead, you value the social control of deciding who studies what, and the economic benefit of a workforce in possession of utilitarian knowledge. "
March 18, 2025 at 2:45 PM
... "Instead, you value the social control of deciding who studies what, and the economic benefit of a workforce in possession of utilitarian knowledge. "
From me on LinkedIn: "if you only value the content of education, and the outcome of education (which has been a Government position of all shades for a while now), but neglect to value the *process* of education, then you don't really value education."
March 18, 2025 at 2:45 PM
From me on LinkedIn: "if you only value the content of education, and the outcome of education (which has been a Government position of all shades for a while now), but neglect to value the *process* of education, then you don't really value education."
The teaching and learning I do is primarily andragogical and even then, play is a critical element of learning. Wargaming, simulations, so many exercises are play and as you point out, enable an element of risk taking.
March 18, 2025 at 11:41 AM
The teaching and learning I do is primarily andragogical and even then, play is a critical element of learning. Wargaming, simulations, so many exercises are play and as you point out, enable an element of risk taking.
Fabulous question (and sadly without an easy answer). I've tended towards ontology is what we know, epistemology is how we know, and axiology is whether it's worth knowing. But I doubt these are truly accurate enough to be usable (which I think is itself a statement that includes all three).
February 18, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Fabulous question (and sadly without an easy answer). I've tended towards ontology is what we know, epistemology is how we know, and axiology is whether it's worth knowing. But I doubt these are truly accurate enough to be usable (which I think is itself a statement that includes all three).
What role does story and narrative play in critical processes associated with entrepreneurship
September 17, 2024 at 2:28 PM
What role does story and narrative play in critical processes associated with entrepreneurship
Bit left-field, but as my main area (leadership & enterprise) is stuffed with pop-guff, I want to shout out a book that is an accidental leadership masterpiece - a wonderfully written & deeply thoughtful account of dog-sledding. Gary Paulsen - Winterdance. www.goodreads.com/book/show/29...
Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod
Fueled by a passion for running dogs, Gary Paulsen ente…
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August 20, 2024 at 11:02 AM
Bit left-field, but as my main area (leadership & enterprise) is stuffed with pop-guff, I want to shout out a book that is an accidental leadership masterpiece - a wonderfully written & deeply thoughtful account of dog-sledding. Gary Paulsen - Winterdance. www.goodreads.com/book/show/29...
As the 2004 Leitch Review pointed out, but which successive administrations promptly forgot, at any one time around 80% of the workforce for 20 years ahead is already in the workforce. Adult skills development and maintenance is a critical economic priority.
August 15, 2024 at 12:18 PM
As the 2004 Leitch Review pointed out, but which successive administrations promptly forgot, at any one time around 80% of the workforce for 20 years ahead is already in the workforce. Adult skills development and maintenance is a critical economic priority.