Frances to members... This message recently posted to the Dewey List may be of interest to some Aesthetic Listers who attend to certain criteria claimed by experts as needed for leaders aspiring to be engaged in the labor market or work place. It is posted here slightly edited by me for clarity, with apologies to the original author and poster.
-FCK ------ A recent report, entitled "IBM Global CEO Study" based on interviews with over 1500 officers and managers and supervisors in the public and private sectors from 60 countries and 33 industries, indicated that the single most important characteristic hirers say they now need in their workers as leaders is creativity. The reported study finds and holds that the IBM company in Europe is wrongly embarking on a "national curriculum" literally built on older constructs developed in the 18th century, pooling governmental resources to develop yet more "aptitude tests" that might enable attention be placed on a broader range of students, but still focusing primarily on those "basic skills" that businesses comfortably know how to measure. Those tests and skills however are now inefficient and insufficient. It is agreed by polled leaders on the other hand that American higher education is valued more than any other in the world, because it produces creative graduates, yet the company in Europe continues to ignore that need, at least as framed within their European context and policy. The idea of creativity for candidates in education and occupation was developed in the American school system almost a century ago, but has all but been forgotten elsewhere. ------ "The imagination is the medium of appreciation in every field. The engagement of the imagination is the only thing that makes any activity more than mechanical. Unfortunately, it is too customary to identify the imaginative with the imaginary, rather than with a warm and intimate taking in of the full scope of a situation." -John Dewey These websites have more details on this report: <http://bit.ly/926tiM> <http://yhoo.it/ajWhOR>
