Can Educators Learn from “The Corner Office”?
How can business management ideas be applied in education? Pick your adverb.
One of the topics I’ve returned to now and then in the past couple years concerns the applicability of business and management principles in education. Too often when we hear business people lecturing educators about business, they’re envisioning a rigid hierarchical system built on simplistic notions of threat and reward. In their view, teachers need incentives to work harder, and need to know that if they fail to produce results they’ll be fired. They imagine a workplace where management provides the plan and workers execute the plan, with