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I have learned, if you give a team a budget, then the team tries to maximise the budget so that they get the same next year.

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I literally worked at research labs where the staff really tried to steer management away from the modern technology that was actually better.

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Elite colleges like Stanford are extremely inaccessible. They're failing in their mission to provide access.

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Corporate America is drowning in meetings. To make one thing clear, I am not against communication. Quick one-on-ones can be extremely effective. I am talking about those hour-long recurring meetings, devoid of a clear agenda, and attended by many. I dread them.

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Horizontal meetings are team or project meetings, set up to coordinate individual activities. When I worked in a large tech company, those meetings just popped up in my calendar by the dozen.

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Many of us are inspired and are eager to get things done. But once too many people are involved, life becomes complicated. We are all social beings, so we have an innate urge to incorporate everyone's thoughts.

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There is a simple fix to our excessive meeting culture, but it is not easy to implement. It's one of these things that are easy to say but hard to do. The fix is: abandon all recurring meetings. I am serious. All!

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In the field of higher ed, many have asked whether (or when) digital education will replace on-campus education. I wonder the opposite. Cinema never replaced theatre. TV didn't replace radio. I wonder how different digital education will be from classrooms, and where it will lead us.

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I was a popular professor. My teaching ratings were usually good. I could take complicated subjects and explain them in an entertaining way.

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You don't lose weight by watching someone else exercise. You don't learn by watching someone else solve problems. It became clear to me that the only way to do online learning effectively is to have students solve problems.

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Scientist

Born: May 14th, 1967

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