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October 10th, 2005 Whether a daycare worker, homeschooler, or traditional teacher, the task of educating can be daunting. Assignments, lesson plans, grading, and discipline are just some of the responsibilities involved with being an educator. However, no amount of education can prepare you for what truly happens in the classroom.
by John Hagel III, John Seely Brown and Lang Davison | 9:41 AM January 17, 2009 Of all the business books we have on our shelves--and between us there must be more than twenty thousand volumes--likely one-quarter of them discuss how the world is speeding up. Peter Drucker probably started the trend in 1968 with The Age of Discontinuity . The most persuasive might be Ray Kurzweil's The Singularity is Near , which observes that information technology displays "exponential growth in the rate of exponential growth," which in turn fuels faster-changing events, practices, and processes--while, over time, accelerating economic expansion. The world is moving so fast that even the short term seems long. Writing his Financial Times column The Long View on a recent Friday morning, John Authors observed that, "as far as many traders across the world are concerned, a 'long view'... is anything that goes much past Sunday evening."
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