Being a team player should not imply a demand for simple obedience and conformity.

Grades are a subjective rating masquerading as an objective evaluation.

When we do things that are controlling, whether intentional or not, we are not going to get those long-term outcomes.

It's not just that humiliating people, of any age, is a nasty and disrespectful way of treating them. It's that humiliation, like other forms of punishment, is counterproducti ve. 'Doing to' strategies - as opposed to those that might be described as 'working with' - can never achieve any result beyond temporary compliance, and it does so at a disturbing cost.

Don't let anyone tell you that standardized tests are not accurate measures. The truth of the matter is they offer a remarkably precise method for gauging the size of the houses near the school where the test was administered.

Contrary to what you think, your company will be a lot more productive if you refuse to tolerate competition among your employees.

The late W. Edwards Deming, guru of Quality management, once declared, 'The most important things we need to manage can't be measured.' If that’s true of what we need to manage, it should be even more obvious that it’s true of what we need to teach.