Differences.....

So with the idea of the way we see things, I am actually looking at different perspectives on education. I have recently switched my MBA program from the University of St. Thomas to Carlson's program and the common question is, "What is the difference?"

To answer this would literally take about 20 pages, but because I know that the attention span of most of us (at least for me) is limited to about 2 pages because of the amount of course work that we have going on. There are key differences that differentiate each program, neither good nor bad, but different.

Teaching styles vary and the way that perspectives of different cases are viewed vary a lot. I have seen that the Carlson School has a more mature set of individuals that contribute a lot of work experience, where as the program at St. Thomas has many people that are straight from undergrad and they have a different perspective that is more based on a textbook approach.

Why am I bringing up these differences? The answer to this is simple, often times we become so engulfed in our own view point and our own way of thinking that we forget to take a step back and look at the macro view of things. As future leaders we need to be strategic in our thinking, but also in our delivery of our thinking. If we are so set in our own ways and we see things from such a narrow perspective we forget to see that being effective means to think from the stand point of somebody else.

As technology has allowed for us to communicate faster than we ever have before, we must also see that slowing down and thinking/looking from a different stance may be the most efficient for us to be progressive.