My favourite email is ...

Since last summer, we have been openly working on developing a new model for the OU Cisco ASC in the UK. Instead of focussing on growth, we are focussing on developing new ASC's and sharing our community with them.

Why, you may ask?

To put it in the simplest terms, to grow - we must share. To ensure a longer term future, we must enable others - rather than rely on the same old faces, doing the same ole' thing.

So, now we are encouraging some of our Cisco Academies to align with other ASC's - which means we now get the above email with greater frequency.

This is resulting in having more collaboration, more ideas, more capacity and greater growth in the longer term. I will see our numbers diminish for now. However, our collective numbers will increase over time and reach new students, new educators and many more underserved communities.

Which means - we are growing, but not necessarily in simplistic numerical terms ...