Passion and Purpose

CHAPTER 6

Learning

Educating Tomorrow’s Leaders

Five years from now, on the web—for free—you’ll be able to find the best lectures in the world. It will be better than any single university.

—Bill Gates¹

By many conventional measures, the next generation is one of the most educated in history, and young businesspeople are certainly looking to educational experiences, within and beyond their everyday jobs, to make them better managers and leaders.

Yet there’s a growing feeling among young business leaders that current learning models are not enough. Because of the rapid pace of technological development, increasing globalization, a more uncertain economic outlook, and myriad other reasons that will make future careers look drastically different ...