Chapter 8Redefine Education
The B Team leaders see investments in education as the most important we will make in the coming decades. It's clear that despite their many defects, our education systems have succeeded in ways that would have been unimaginable a century or two ago. They are turning out some very bright young people ready to take on the world. In some ways, however, and particularly at the level of business schools, they have succeeded too well in indoctrinating students in conventional wisdom. Too many of the world's leading B-schools have been inculcating a single-bottom-line-focused agenda and linked set of values.
These monocular, one-dimensional values can be seen in C-suites around the world—and they are brought into even ...
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