Welcome back to the Strategic CSR Newsletter!
The first newsletter of the Fall semester is below.
I am on sabbatical this semester and travelling, so Newsletters may be
more intermittent than usual.
As always, your comments and ideas are welcome.
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The radio segment in the url below contains a fascinating statistic that reflects the pace of change in the nature of work:
"… 6 in 10 children starting elementary school today will end up in jobs that don't yet exist."
This statistic, which comes from the World Economic Forum, inevitably leads to the question:
"How do you get a student ready for a future that you can't really describe?"
Naturally, this has implications for the education system, in general, but also in terms of specific issues/subjects, such as CSR:
"It means that you have to be training them on how to adapt to many tough situations, how to think critically and how to immerse them in today's real world problems. Today it's very different than maybe two decades ago, where you learned just a specific skill, and you had that skill and stayed in that career for the rest of your life. The economy is changing so rapidly, not just with tech but with globalization ... You use textbooks, but you also have to create real world situations to which they react."
I wonder how business schools are responding to these evolving needs? They need to be part of the solution, but are inhabited by the same inertial forces that characterize any organization.
Take care
David
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Retiring Colorado Education Titans on How to Keep Schools Relevant in a Changing World
By Joella Baumann
July 25, 2018
Colorado Public Radio
