▶ Short Sims are designed and built by Clark Aldrich
More than two decades ago, in his award-winning 2005 book Learning by Doing, Clark Aldrich identified four dominant types of simulations: branching stories, interactive spreadsheets, virtual products, and game-based models.
Over the following 15+ years, Aldrich refined, combined, and pressure-tested these simulations in real organizational settings, with real constraints. What emerged was a single, coherent pedagogy.
The result is Short Sims.
About Clark Aldrich: Clark Aldrich is a global leadership expert who has worked with C-level executives from scores of the world’s most influential organizations. He has written six books and created dozens of award- and patent-winning serious games and educational simulations.
His published work has been at the forefront of eLearning (1997), simulation- and game-based learning (1998), microschools (Unschooling Rules, 2011), and action-based learning (Short Sims, 2020).
His clients range from Sony, McKinsey, Visa, and Moody’s to the Center for Army Leadership, the United Nations, the U.S. Department of State, the NSA, Harvard, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.