Jay Matthews

Musgrave argues that this hyper focus on growth creates instability because most of the students that leave these institutions will need to be involved in maintaining businesses rather than being the one a handful of big innovators.

I’m indifferent to whether you do something great or not. All I know is that tapping into your creative potential is deeply powerful and with all the resources in the world at our disposal, we might as well see what we can become.

We are anxious. We are scared. There is no place to run. There is no place to hide. There is only our love and grief to hold us in the terror of all we are seeing, sensing, denying. We can’t touch the source of our despair because we can’t touch each other. And so we retreat inside when everything outside is screaming. We are sitting in rooms... See more

We cannot breathe. This is our mantra in America now.

We know that in markets and industries where there is a score, people do improve, and markets are efficient. For example, in sales, it's very clear what a good day is, it's very clear what a bad day is, and people are motivated to improve. You can measure who's great and who's not. If there's someone junior on the team who's really good, they're

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"let's embrace these bulging urban brains, these massed flowerings of opportunity and potential. The frontiers of exploration have spread from deserts, forests and mountain ranges to include centres of human population whose increasing scale demands new research, new ideas, new policies; fresh symbolism . Urban jungles are greener than we think.... See more

Starts with explaining how in the 1980s and 1990s, in elite schools (e.g. Harvard), there was a shift in focus from producing good corporate employees to the following:

Steve Jobs once said, “ The most powerful person in the world is the storyteller . The storyteller sets the vision, values, and agenda of an entire generation that is to come.”