The Promise of Fast Education [1]
Is learning: Martin is currently finishing a book on leadership collaboration, is working to create the most innovative collaboration yet between business schools and the venture-capital industry, and is planning for ways to change the way ethics is taught to make it more actionable.
The staff at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management want classroom experiences to be generative, resulting from interactions and real-time exercises between classmates. To that end, they have launched several new courses, including one called "Learning How to Learn," which focuses almost exclusively on interactive exercises that help students understand and overcome their limits to learning. It's designed to increase students' long-term ability not only to be more self-reflective, but also to learn on the job in real time.
Is reading:
- Flawed Advice and the Management Trap: How Managers Can Know When They're Getting Good Advice and When They're Not [2]
By Chris Argyris - Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress [3]
Edited by Lawrence E. Harrison and Samuel P. Huntington - Digital Capital: Harnessing the Power of Business Webs [4]
By Don Tapscott, David Ticoll, Alex Lowy
Coordinates: martin@mgmt.utoronto.ca [5]
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Is learning: May is currently exploring things that go bump in IT, specifically the creation of secure digital infrastructures. He's also pursuing the role of advisory boards in value creation as well as the dimensions of "digital trust."
Is reading:
- Firebrands: Building Brand Loyalty in the Internet Age [7]
By Michael Moon - The Minding Organization: Bring the Future to the Present and Turn Creative Ideas into Business Solutions [8]
By Moshe F. Rubinstein and Iris R. Firstenberg - Renewable Advantage: Crafting Strategy Through Economic Time [9]
By Jeffrey R. Williams
Coordinates: thornton.may@guardent.com [10]
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Is learning: Meyer is considering the bio economy, the effect of emotion in business, and the application of complexity science to business.
Is reading:
- Unleashing the Ideavirus [12]
By Seth Godin - Leading the Revolution [13]
By Gary Hamel - Surfing the Edge of Chaos: The New Art and Science of Management [14]
By Richard Tanner Pascale, Mark Milleman, Linda Gioja
Coordinates: chris.meyer@us.cgeyc.com [15]
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Is learning: Quelch's recent challenges include coping with the excess demand for London Business School's portfolio of six new e-business and new-economy education seminars. He is also researching how to use distance and distributed learning to bring top-quality management education to a broader audience and how consumer packaged-goods companies can revitalize themselves to become, once again, marketing thought leaders.
Is reading:
- The Spiritual Teachings of Marcus Aurelius [17]
By Mark Forstater - Ancestral Passions: The Leakey Family and the Quest for Humankind's Beginnings [18]
By Virginia Morell - The Internet Entrepreneurs [19]
By Christopher Price
Coordinates: jquelch@london.edu [20]
The Promise of Fast Education [21]
Is learning: Rayport is working on a textbook and a casebook, coauthored with colleague Bernie Jaworski (formerly of the University of South Carolina's Marshall School of Business), both entitled E-Commerce. He is also collaborating with Jaworski on a trade book for publication in early 2001, entitled Marketspace.
He is also developing a prime-time television program on thought leaders in the new economy for Report on Business Television (ROB-TV), a business-oriented cable-TV network in Canada, that will premiere in late 2000.
Is reading:
- The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence [22]
By Ray Kurzweil - Martin Dressler [23]
By Steven Millhauser - The Media Equation: How People Treat Computers, Television, and New Media Like Real People and Places [24]
By Byron Reeves and Clifford Nass - Learning from Las Vegas [25]
By Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, Steven Izenour
Coordinates: jeffrey@tnbt.com [26]
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Is reading:
- Surfing the Edge of Chaos: The New Art and Science of Management [28]
By Richard Tanner Pascale, Mark Milleman, Linda Gioja - The Invisible Continent: Four Strategic Imperatives of the New Economy [29]
By Kenichi Ohmae - A biography of Jerry Garcia
Coordinates: awebber@fastcompany.com [30]
The Promise of Fast Education [31]
Is learning: White is developing a "successful intelligence" test to use in Michigan's MBA program admissions, a subject that was recently covered in the New York Times. He is also striving to attract more women into the nation's top MBA programs (they are woefully underrepresented) and is preparing himself for a return to full-time faculty work within this year after a nearly twenty-year detour into the practice of leadership and management.
Is reading:
- John P. Kotter on What Leaders Really Do [32]
By John P. Kotter - Managing in the New Economy [33]
Edited with an introduction by Joan Magretta - Hidden Value: How Great Companies Achieve Extraordinary Results with Ordinary People [34]
By Charles A. O'Reilly III and Jeffrey Pfeffer
Coordinates: bjwhite@bus.umich.edu [35]
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Is learning: At Notre Dame, Woo is developing a game plan for major faculty and curriculum initiatives upon the receipt of a $35 million gift from Tom and Kathy Mendoza of Net Apps (Network Applications). She is also considering a major revision of the school's not-for-profit management Master's program. In her efforts to balance work and life, she is striving to reform her life so that she can attend the majority of her sons' school events and can master the Chopin waltzes.
Is reading:
- The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization [37]
By Thomas L. Friedman - Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership [38]
By Joseph Jaworski with an introduction by Peter Senge - Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love [39]
By Dava Sobel
Coordinates: carolyn.y.woo.5@nd.edu [40]