Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 1/9/12

January 9, 2012

Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 1/9/12

January 9, 2012—Issue #120

This week’s focus point: Has anyone thought about a strategy for education? In corporate strategy, we paint a picture of the future and then “work backwards” to determine how to organize to reach it (which is why “planning” is anathema, since it extrapolates from the present, and “strategic planning” is an oxymoron). Why don’t we start with a picture of future, productive work forces (knowledge-based, technical skills, globalized, working remotely, diverse stimuli, automated routine chores, etc.) and create both professional and trade education that will support it? Our current cookie-cutter concepts of curricula don’t work now and aren’t preparing students for the future. That’s one of the reasons home schooling has grown so rapidly and is so effective. Organizations don’t reach strategic goals by using techniques that led to old goals. They develop new techniques, resources, and ideas. Classic education is an example of an almost complete lack of innovation over centuries.

Monday Morning Perspective: If you can do it, it ain’t braggin’. — Former baseball pitcher Dizzy Dean

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