The Best School for the World, taking off in NL |
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“The Best School for the World”, taking off in The Netherlands! In September 2007, the KaosPilots Netherlands will launch a fulltime 3-year program for young entrepreneurs who want to make a positive difference in the world… “One individual, endowed with passion and purpose, can change the world…” - They are looking for 35! www.kaospilots.nl. The Kaos team also leads a three month course for artists and entrepreneurs see KaosKunstenaars&co.pdf. Read about Kaos Pilots in our book A new Look at the Experience Economy, to be published in english beginning of May.
The KaosPilots is a school for new business design & social innovation. We are looking for 35 young, creative and disciplined outsiders!
The program focuses on personal development, value-based entrepreneurship, creativity and out-of-the-box approaches to the problems and challenges in business, society and organizations.
KaosPilot-students are trained to be entrepreneurs in the local & global fields of:
- social innovation
- cultural diversity
- sustainability
KaosPilot-students are skilled professionally in three disciplines:
- process design
- project design
- business design
The students are trained in a real life setting working only with assignments and projects defined by real clients reflecting real needs and challenges outside the school.
Other cool things:
- a world internship
- a global team-outpost in a challenging region at one of the far end corners of the world
The KaosPilots Netherlands is looking for students for Team 1 (2007-10) - application deadline May 1st 2007.
You can apply for the KaosPilots:
- If you are between 21 and 31 years old
- If you have project-work experience - or similar
- If you have good skills in English: speaking, writing & understanding
- If you are curious and creative
- If you have an entrepreneurial mind-set
- If you want to create projects/processes or your own business
- If you want to make a difference
- If you are talented and motivated to learn together with others.
- If you’re looking for an extraordinary education - this could be it…!
Check out www.kaospilots.nl for more information, application form and admission procedure!
Check also www.kaospilots.nl to see if there is an official info-meeting with the KaosPilots in a place near you!
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Two weeks ago I had an interview with one of the Kaos Pilots who is founding the school overhere and I have to say I was very impressed. Many times I have thought about what kind of education could be useful for people to understand and really integrate the values that are important for creating meaningful experiences and the whole interview was one big recognition of these values. A piece of advice for everyone dealing with hiring people and thinking about how you can get to really know the applicant: take a look at the Kaos application form at their website. In Johari windows terms: usually three out of four windows are dealt with during an interview. There is the ‘open’ window of things the applicant knows about himself and you also know about him. You have read the letter, the CV, you see the person. The next window is the ‘blind’ one. Things you know about the applicant that he doesn’t know himself. For example the impression he is unconsciously making on you because of his gestures or other non-verbal communications. Then there is the ‘hidden’ window that you want to get to know: things he knows about himself, but you don’t. That’s where the interview starts, to try to get things out into the open (literally getting things from this hidden window out into the open window). But the Kaos Application form does one more thing: it involves the ‘unknown’ window. Things the applicant not even knows about himself. The questions posed in the form require thinking and self-reflection, causing the applicant to possibly learn some very valuable things about himself. Recommended!