What Facebook Has to Teach Us About How to Teach
Rick Wartzman writes about the way that Facebook is building a culture of continuous learning throughout the company.
Reengineering Engineering
When we think of educating engineers, we tend to picture numbers and inclined planes rather than Socrates in a robe.
What Peter Drucker Would Be Reading
Recent selections from around the web that, we think, would have caught Peter Drucker’s eye.
Found! The Lost Drucker Tapes
In the late 1960s, a company called BNA Communications Inc. began offering a selection of 16-millimeter films featuring the already-legendary Peter Drucker teaching essential organizational and leadership principles through “authentic situations.” BNA produced four different series over the years, as film gave way to videotape: “The Effective Executive,” “The Manager and the Organization,” “Managing Discontinuity” and ...
A Problem to Solve
Should we blame Greek mathematician Diophantus or Persian mathematician Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi? Depending on whom you ask, you’ll probably be told that one of them invented algebra, that hurdle which so many high school students fail to clear. And maybe we’re just tormenting ourselves and our kids pointlessly by trying to clear it. Writing in the New York Times on ...
Ouch. That hurt. Let’s Try It Again.
Taking it on the chin can leave you a bit battered and bruised. But if you handle it right, it can also help you learn. That’s a key insight from a Wall Street Journal excerpt of the new book What The Best College Students Do by Ken Bain. As Bain explains it, students with equal intelligence scores can perform quite ...
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