There’s a connection to this topic for you! And perhaps the government is simply repeating their error at a higher level if it bails them out. Lots of room for frustration all around.

Thanks for your visit, and, by the way, for your work and your incisive writing at your own site, which I hope readers here will click through to visit.

Now this is really interesting thinking – and it points to another aspect of the way politics – both overtly in political institutions and covertly in the dynamics of our organizations and even our own behavior – influences how things actually unfold.

These are the kinds of questions we need to get more discussion of in education at all levels.

Thanks for this, Rob, and for your work and writing.

Thanks for your too-kind words. Speaking of budgets, this sort of thinking should be applied to the “bailout” payments being made currently. Where should our money really be going? The actual response we’re seeing, including the political elements in the “leadership” being shown, makes it all the more interesting.

Thanks again, Cam!

This is a great connection – it’s probably even a harder point to drive home than the other made in the post. It’s probably a good test for our ability to think this way across the organization – by training ourselves to think this way about ourselves, and about how we conduct staff development.

It’s an interesting topic, too, pointing to the complexity of developing and managing a staff of diverse talents in an environment of sometimes inflexible demands. A question of problem or opportunity.

Thanks for adding this to the mix – a lot to think about.

It cant’ be done of course in public education because of equity issues, but an interesting question would be should our top students should be getting more attention and resources to leverage their abilities for the future of our society?

It’s a simple question of leadership. Brilliantly put, Jim.