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Michael Strong is one of the most experienced designers of innovative school programs in the United States: He has more than twenty-eight years creating innovative K-12 programs and schools based on Montessori, Socratic, and entrepreneurial principles.   

He is the author of The Habit of Thought: From Socratic Seminars to Socratic Practice and lead author of Be the Solution: How Entrepreneurs and Conscious Capitalists Can Solve All the World’s Problems.

Chapters in this episode include:

• John Boyd and the Nature of Learning and Creativity 
• Entrepreneurs Create Value 
• Experiential Education and Adult Learning
• Education as Scaling a Culture
• Social Physics: Measuring Psychological Safety and Engagement 
• Soft Skills: The Hard Skills
• Observable Entrepreneurial Behaviors
• Exaptive Teaming Skills from High Risk Environments
• The Most Boring and Cruel Years: Secondary School
• Thoughts on Improving the Education System 
• Freedom of Speech: The Dangers of Shutting Down the Views of Others 
• The Tarantino Rule for Shaping Orientation 
• To Be or To Do: Mentorship and Coaching
• Entrepreneurial Solutions over Political Polarization 
• Whole Foods and the Experience Economy
• Conscious Capitalism  
• Decentralize Decision-Making  

Be sure to use the Chapters Feature to quickly browse and navigate to segments of this episode.

The Socratic Experience
Conscious Capitalism
Michael Strong on LinkedIn

John R. Boyd's Conceptual Spiral was originally titled No Way Out. In his own words: 

“There is no way out unless we can eliminate the features just cited. Since we don’t know how to do this, we must continue the whirl of reorientation…”

March 25, 2025

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