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The New New Economy: More Startups, Fewer Giants, Infinite Opportunity on 2009-06-03
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"This sort of voluntary, radical disaggregation is an attractive alternative for some large organizations."
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"Small pieces, loosely joined" was the mantra.
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now, in the graveyard of giants, it's worth asking: Was Malone right?
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This crisis is not just the trough of a cycle but the end of an era. We will come out not just wiser but different.
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bigger companies are going to get more regulated, limiting their flexibility
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The result is that the next new economy, the one rising from the ashes of this latest meltdown, will favor the small.
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deploys a bottom-up model
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socialism—without the state
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from nimbleness to risk-taking, add
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why small companies have an advantage
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webification of the supply chain
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crisis may have turned our economy into small pieces, loosely joined, but it will be the collective action of millions of workers hungry for change that keeps it that way.
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'The Objective of Education Is Learning, Not Teaching' - Knowledge@Wharton on 2009-05-06
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How to Change the World: How to Use Twitter as a Twool on 2009-05-05
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Lifestyle and the Carbon Cap - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com on 2009-05-05
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Report Says Math Teaching In U.S. Needs an Overhaul - The New York Times on 2009-04-29
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The way mathematics is taught and perceived in the United States needs a major overhaul because most students leave school without enough skills to meet job demands or to continue their education effectively, prominent mathematicians, scientists and engineers
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''Those who do not learn basic mathematics problem-solving skills will be left behind in the world of the future,''
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''More than any other subject, mathematics filters students out of programs leading to scientific and professional careers,''
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students involved in solving realistic problems and encourages students to work together to find solutions
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Undergraduate Education Is Lacking, Report Finds - The New York Times on 2009-04-29
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oral and written communication should be emphasized in all classes
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structure courses around research and problem solving
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The report will be available on the Internet at http://www.sunysb.edu/ boyerreport.
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Undergraduate Education Is Lacking, Report Finds - The New York Times on 2009-04-29
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acclaimed research universities of the United States are shortchanging their undergraduate students, particularly freshmen, according to an unusually candid report from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, one of the nation's leading education-policy organizations.
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consigned undergraduates to classes taught by graduate assistants and failed to provide students with ''a coherent body of knowledge''
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longstanding division between research and teaching that should be ended
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create a culture of inquirers, rather than a culture of receivers
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''Reinventing Undergraduate Education: A Blueprint for America's Research Universities.''
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report's proposals are familiar -- rewarding faculty members more for good teaching, using technology more creatively and fostering more interdisciplinary work -- but the commission tried to weave them into a plan to transform undergraduate education
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recommendations, including placing freshmen in small groups where they live together and take courses together.
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getting students involved in research with senior faculty members.
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another recommendation is that students be required to conduct original research that could become their transition into graduate school.
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Op-Ed Contributor - End the University as We Know It - NYTimes.com on 2009-04-29
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Abolish permanent departments, even for undergraduate education, and create problem-focused programs.
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constantly evolving programs
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Mind, Body, Law, Information, Networks, Language, Space, Time, Media, Money, Life and Water.
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Through the intersection of multiple perspectives and approaches, new theoretical insights will develop and unexpected practical solutions will emerge.
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Increase collaboration among institutions.
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Transform the traditional dissertation.
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no longer a market for books modeled on the medieval dissertation
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develop analytic treatments in formats from hypertext and Web sites to films and video games
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Expand the range of professional options for graduate students.
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the knowledge and skills they will cultivate in the new universities will enable them to adapt to a constantly changing world.
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Impose mandatory retirement and abolish tenure.
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tenure has resulted in institutions with little turnover and professors impervious to change.
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reward researchers, scholars and teachers who continue to evolve and remain productive while also making room for young people with new ideas and skills.
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“Do not do what I do; rather, take whatever I have to offer and do with it what I could never imagine doing
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universities will be shaken out of their complacency and will open academia to a future we cannot conceive.
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Mark C. Taylor, the chairman of the religion department at Columbia
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Op-Ed Contributor - End the University as We Know It - NYTimes.com on 2009-04-29
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GRADUATE education is the Detroit of higher learning.
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mass-production university model has led to separation where there ought to be collaboration and to ever-increasing specialization.
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Each academic becomes the trustee not of a branch of the sciences, but of limited knowledge that all too often is irrelevant for genuinely important problems
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The emphasis on narrow scholarship also encourages an educational system that has become a process of cloning
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The other obstacle to change is that colleges and universities are self-regulating or, in academic parlance, governed by peer review.
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once a faculty member has been granted tenure he is functionally autonomous.
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If American higher education is to thrive in the 21st century, colleges and universities, like Wall Street and Detroit, must be rigorously regulated and completely restructured.
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The long process to make higher learning more agile, adaptive and imaginative can begin with six major steps:
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Restructure the curriculum
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division-of-labor model of separate departments is obsolete and must be replaced with a curriculum structured like a web or complex adaptive network.
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cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural.
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comparative analysis of common problems
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As the curriculum is restructured, fields of inquiry and methods of investigation will be transformed.
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Advice from the Top: Leaders need Scouts' qualities - USATODAY.com on 2009-04-17
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Chief Scout Executive Robert Mazzuca
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leadership lessons can we learn from the way the Boy Scouts
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needs of others before their own. They applied skills and knowledge in a disciplined and organized manner.
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the 12 points of the Scout Law define your character. If you don't have integrity, you're not a good leader no matter how charismatic.
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engaged with (management consultant) McKinsey
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steeped in tradition, which is a good thing, but we're not particularly good at innovation and renewal.
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don't want to abandon tradition, but we want to be nimble.
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trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent
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delivery mechanisms need to be tweaked
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The secret is to get them side by side with adults of character.
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We run the risk of becoming irrelevant if we don't adapt to things that attract kids today, but we run the risk of losing our way if we abandon the principles, which is the Scout Law
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We recognize the evolving science of leadership.
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Wood Badge, our adult leader training program
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time to reintroduce the American people to the Boy Scouts
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quit letting other people define us
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we have such a positive story to tell
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we have abandoned the field of public relations and dialogue
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Everybody has a good feeling about Scouting, and we have not been telling that story at all.
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Because of one issue, we abandoned all dialogue about Scouting. That doesn't make any sense. We can't be afraid.
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If you're not proactive in defining yourself, somebody else will.
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most important thing about leadership today that is not being taught to the nation's youth?
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Personal responsibility. Taking responsibility for your actions is a hallmark of a good leader.
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