Jan. 20, 2010
Is China an Enron? (Part 2)
Op-ed by: Thomas L. Friedland
“Finding ways to connect with people and institutions possessing new knowledge becomes increasingly important,” says Hagel. “Since there are far more smart people outside any one organization than inside.” And in today’s flat world, you can now access them all. Therefore, the more your company or country can connect with relevant and diverse sources to create new knowledge, the more it will thrive. And if you don’t, others will.
- from nytimes.com
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at a time when art education seems to lose relevance, this article gives more or less a real-world example that corresponds closely to what i think art education should be about: making associations between two or more seemingly-unrelated concerns, hence creating new relations and insights, knowledge and capital.