Tag: kaos pilots
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Kaos Pilots: A Comprehensive View (Part 1)
Kaos Pilots is a fairly unique school in that its students are taught by a wide array of guest lecturers who discuss a vast array of subjects. The latter include courses in business strategy, process consulting, and appreciative inquiry as well as workshops on personal development and theories of narrative–just to name a few. Over its…
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Kaos Pilots: The Cultivation of Character
What would unify the curriculum at Kaos Pilots? One way, which I explored in yesterday’s post, would be to treat the education as articulating and specifying what, concretely, making a difference means for me. A second way would be to explicitly teach the cultivation of character. This is called character education. As far back as antiquity,…
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Kaos Pilots: Making a Difference
Yesterday, I began to discuss what Kaos Pilots is; today I will discuss what it could become. I suggested that what could unify the school would be (i) the cultivation of character, (ii) the articulation of a finite set of final aims, and (iii) the attempt to draw a comprehensive picture of a set of prima facie competing…
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The nature of Kaos Pilots and the question of pragmatism
Kaos Pilots is described on Wikipedia as a ‘School of New Business Design and Social Innovation.’ On its own website, Kaos Pilots describes itself as ‘a hybrid business and design school, a multi-sided education in leadership and entrepreneurship.’ But I’m not sure that it is a business school or a design school or a social innovation…
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The Good Life and Sustaining Life: An Inquiry into Our Great Vexation (An excerpt)
Preface: Our Great Vexation There may be no greater vexation in our time than the question of how to make a living in a manner that accords with leading a good life. Laypersons may evade the question merely by closing their eyes and keeping their heads down; doing so involves the great effort of remaining…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 