Business schools do not talk to design schools who do not talk to education schools who do not talk to IT schools and nobody is talking to the cooking schools.

Well, if the core elements of our education system are not relating to each other what chance do you and I have when we leave the ivory tower?

I try to keep up with Tom Peters (and others see the blog-roll on his site for a start) to be grounded in business think, TED to see how the divergent converge and I think it is working.

What we really need to remember is trust in ourselves, we never trust we have anything figured out.

Tom Peters talks about a few people who made trust and circumstance work for them, give it a watch it is very good!

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So, what is stopping you from starting that thing?

–Tom Peters

I like Tom Peters.

If you have not looked at his blog/website you are missing out on a huge source of inspiration and useful leads.

I have been using Re-Imagine as a course text for my intro to communication classes for 2 years now.

We use the ideas and the context of many of Tom’s ideas as the movement point for thinking about how we create a story that communicates what we want it to say.

The point though is why don’t we see more business/communication/education/IT/humanities course linkages?

I teach in a communication college yet what I am teaching is often easily business 101.

Hmmm once again the question has to be how well are we serving students by putting our courses into silos and not actively forcing different disciplines to work together in producing content that is meaningful today, tomorrow and yesterday.

Once again food for thought from the world of business and Tom Peters.