What are the best subjects to learn for business – and life – success? If anyone sat down to identify the perfect secondary (and maybe college) education, I doubt they would come up with today’s average American curriculum. While there are plenty of courses in basic skills (reading, writing, mathematics, and so on) many other [...] Read more »
knowledge versus credentials, and links
A few links below got me thinking. I’ve written about this before, but it’s amazing how much our society – particularly corporate society – values credentials, versus knowledge. I have done enough phone interviews with clients to realize that they are far more interested in my credentials than what I actually know. They want to [...] Read more »
teaching and being taught, and links
I don’t know if I’ve ever mentioned this on this blog or not, but I spent a fair amount of time as a part-time schoolteacher for both middle school and college freshmen as a substitute teacher and later as a graduate assistant. I taught intro to calculus and accounting in grad school and substituted for [...] Read more »
how to build a love of learning
Why don’t Americans like to read? And they don’t. You’re reading blogs, so you obviously enjoy reading, but many people don’t. You think other people ought to like to read. But books don’t hold much sway anymore. From bookstatistics.com: 58% of the US adult population never reads another book after high school. 42% of college [...] Read more »
rebuilding the idea of elitism in America
Elitism has earned an ugly name over the past decade or so. A sure way to accuse someone of having poor judgment or lacking real-world experience is to tar them with the “elite” label. The use of “elite” as a derogatory term has been most pronounced in politics. Political leaders sneer at elites – holding [...] Read more »
have MBAs been devalued by the crisis?
When I went to graduate school, an MBA was still an achievement – it almost guaranteed getting the job you wanted and conferred an impressive status (at least in the business world) on anyone who held one. Consequently, the popularity of the MBA grew and grew over the last couple of decades. In today’s corporate [...] Read more »
