Everything I Need to Know I Learned (or Didn't Learn) in Business School

BY Fast Company | May 31, 2001

Carlo Brumat

Carlo Brumat, currently dean of DUXX Graduate School of Business Leadership, in Monterrey, Mexico, worked for many years in industry both in the United States and in Europe -- first as a physicist and later as a financial analyst at the Fund of the West, a venture-capital firm based in Beverly Hills, California.

Returning to academic life, he earned his PhD in management science at UCLA and later moved back to Europe to teach at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France. While there, he became a consultant to several European firms in the oil, electricity, telecommunications, and computer industries. He has had a lifelong interest in science and its impact on society. He is the founder of ETHICA, a forum of ethical reflection based in Asti, Italy. He is also the author of some two hundred articles and papers on different aspects of the science of effective action.

Wrote about:
Everything I Need to Know I Learned (or Didn't Learn) in Business School

Is learning:
Brumat says the following questions keep him up at night.

Erotetic logic:
To what extent is knowledge acquisition and construction the result of an interrogative process? More generally, what interesting things do we know about questions -- including those which are destined to remain without an answer -- and about questioning?

Diasporas:
What kinds of diasporas are there and in what sense are they key components of late-modern society? What can we learn from their study about such things as the future of politics, the modes and limits of assimilation and integration, and transnational networks and their significance for politics and economics?

Geoeconomics:
Churchill predicted in 1943 that the empires of the future would be empires of the mind, whether creative or captive. This means that we now live in a new space, free of territorial constraints and limitations where aggrandizement is being sought by different means. Geopolitics is in the back seat; geoeconomics is in the driver's seat. Or not?

Is reading:

Comprender la Globalización (Understanding Globalization)
By Guillermo de la Dehesa
El Mito del Desarrollo (The Myth of Development)
Oswaldo de Rivera
The Measure of Reality: Quantification and Western Society 1250-1600
By Alfred W. Crosby

Coordinates: cbrumat@duxx.mx

Gerald Haman

Gerald Haman is the founding partner of SolutionPeople and the THINKubator in Chicago. Before founding SolutionPeople in 1989, Haman was a Procter & Gamble sales manager, Arthur Andersen training researcher, and concert producer for Grammy Award winners.

He is the award-winning inventor of the KnowBrainer®, Pocket Innovator®, and the Pocket Persuader® planning tools. Haman coauthored the New Product Development Handbook, and has written articles for the Journal of Innovative Management and Training Today magazines. His Continuous Innovation(TM) and Diamond Solution Process(TM) models have gained acclaim around the world.

Haman has an MA in organizational communication and an MA in training and development, and he has been a university lecturer at Northwestern, Loyola, DePaul, and Wayne State Universities. He has served on the faculty of Innovation University, the Creative Problem Solving Institute, the American Society for Quality, and Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art.

Haman grew up in a cattle ranch and farm in North Dakota, where he rode in his first rodeo at age six. He lives in Chicago with his wife Jillian and three children, Olivia, Jake, and Felicia.

He was profiled in issue 23 of Fast Company.

Wrote about:
Everything I Need to Know I Learned (or Didn't Learn) in Business School

Is learning:

Haman is currently learning how to license his KnowBrainer Accelerated Innovation Training and THINKubator Centers around the world, how to develop creativity software for the PalmPilot, and how to be the best dad he can be.

Is reading: