Some reform ideas

Nicholas good stuff!

Ian Verrender today reports some research on productivity That might be relevant.

Suggest that our approach to selecting and training managers might be too narrow,too specialised and too self reinforcing.

“I am worried that people with an inadequate knowledge of the history and literature of their culture will ultimately become entirely self-referential, like science fiction’s most telling symbol, the happy fool who lives in the one dimensional world of pointland, and thinks he knows everything because he forms his entire universe.”

“I can’t do much with a student that doesn’t know multivariate statistics and the logic of natural selection; but I cannot make a good scientist – though I can forge an adequate technocrat – from a person who never reads beyond the professional journals of his own field”

Steven J Gould