Radical management involves a shift in goal from making money for shareholders to delighting the customer with continuous innovation. Making money is the result, not the goal of the firm. In this radical management mode, firms end up being much more productive and making much more money.
the really big differences in performance in education do not lie in the performance of individual teachers but rather in the overall systems within which the teachers function
Looking at education as lifelong learning is more and more in sync with what is happening in the workplace and marketplace, which is basically very good news. Firms need, and are beginning to want, people who are genuinely “educated”
The goal needs to shift from one of making a system that teaches children a curriculum more efficiently to one of making the system more effective by inspiring lifelong learning in students, so that they are able to have full and productive lives in a rapidly shifting economy.
At the core, it’s about caring for kids, doing what’s right by them not what’s easy for us. That’s the piece we seem to be missing, and that’s the piece that should be motivating all of us start screaming about a meaningful overhaul of the system.