The Tom Peters Weblog: Education
Dispatches from the New World of Work
- It Takes a (Rather Large) Village ...
An attendee of one of our Brand You Workshops, Steve Wood, shared his wife Cullen's project with us. It's called... - Forget the Threat of Outsourcing!
Sometimes a thousand well chosen words can change your view of something important. So it was for me with a... - Gotta Read It II
Speaking of world trade and competitiveness, and if you are not depressed enough by the news and images from Baghdad,... - Hmmmm ...
This week's U.S. News & World Report, in its cover story, observes that in the last 5 years (a more... - Keep On Truckin'
Great snippet in this week's Newsweek. "Keep On Truckin'" describes In-Cab University, "the first accredited college catering to the trucking... - Another Myth Bites the Dust
A lot of our test frenzy has been fueled by test scores from Asia. To begin with, the deal has... - Whoops!
I was rushing and got my dates confused in "Book of the Century." It's fixed now—and thanks for letting me... - What's the Business of Business?
Catching up on my newspaper reading, I came across this contentious nugget from the Business Section of the Boston Sunday... - Where Brains and Brawn Mix. Big Time.
It's an unassailable truth that brains and brawn do not mix. You hardly hear a peep about sports prowess coming... - Knowledge Worker U
Jim McGee, writing in the Future Tense blog over at Corante, put up a post back in February titled "A... - Getting My Goat
Sure it's a little thing. Sure Susan thought I was nuts. I don't care. I think it's important. A local... - Query?
Yup. Tom does get off on taking gratuitous whacks at business schools. The latest. Remember, a couple of days ago,... - Compliance Rules, OK!
It's National Enterprise Week in the UK. Our next Prime Minister Gordon Brown is launching Enterprise Summer Schools to train... - Oh, That Should Help ...
Business schools are, well, so funny. Or, rather, so stupid it's funny. Read in the Financial Times that MIT's Sloan... - More MBA Woes (per Me)
While publicizing Re-imagine! in the U.K. two years ago, I did a seminar at Said Business School at Oxford. I... - The Future Is Now
Maybe others have done it, but I was fascinated to read on AOL news this morning that Vail Unified School... - Back from Saudi
It is true that most of the 9/11 principals were Saudi. It's true that women's rights are "meager" in Saudi.... - The Met School
One of Tom's coolest friends, Dennis Littky, is an education innovator. NPR's All Things Considered broadcast a story about one... - I Hate MBAs/Redux
Just a thought: Who, in their Right Mind would grow up desiring to be a "Master" of "Administration"? (E.g.: "I... - New Economy Biz Degree Programs
Did I share this with you before? (Peter?) I do believe in advanced education! Incl BizEducation! So while I'd dump... - Ferocity Amidst the Ivy
Speaking of competitiveness, Saturday's FTmagazine (Financial Times) served up a cover story titled "Oxford Blues: How U.S. Academia Left Britain's... - Quote of the Day
"There is little evidence of the correlation of [personality] test scores with school performance, managerial effectiveness, team building or career... - Quote of the Day
My friend the educator Dennis Littky (see my 09.07 Blog on his boffo new book, The Big Picture) reports on... - Outsourcing Redux ... Redux
Daniel Altman at Business 2.0 weighs in on the outsourcing debate; education figures prominently....