A Different Kind of Employee? What Problem?
"For U.S. corporations to thrive, they are going to need a different kind of employee from what they have had in the past; people who can think, not just work. The great majority of people in the company don't really understand their company's business.
"People need to learn a different way of thinking about their work. 
This sounds pretty simple, but it's
actually very hard. They need to think creatively about how to do their work, because for most people, that's not been part of their responsibility.
"We have to teach
everybody in the organization to be creative, out-of-the-box thinkers --- and not enough is being done about that." < Michael Hammer
"Solutions, created from within a system, for the problems attendant to that system, do not solve those problems; they only add to the size and complexity of the system. The real problem is that the system cannot be discerned by one who is in the system in his/her thinking and meaning-making." < James Masters, Peter Gold's good friend and mentor
"We will not solve the problems of the world from the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." < Albert Einstein, school-dropout
"In school, a washing away of the innate power of individual mind takes place, a 'cleansing' so comprehensive that original thinking becomes difficult. That is the whole point of national forced schooling; we aren't supposed to be able to think for ourselves." < John Taylor Gatto, New York City Teacher of the Year, New York State Teacher of the Year, and author of Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
"The United States is the first nation in human history to deliberately deny its children the tools of critical thinking." < Bertrand Russell, noted philosopher and author
"Ninety-nine [students] out of a hundred are automata, careful to walk in prescribed paths, careful to follow the prescribed custom. This is not an accident, but the result of substantial education, which, scientifically defined, is the subsumption of the individual." < William Torrey Harris, author of The Philosophy of Education, U.S. Commissioner of Education at the turn of the century and the man most influential in standardizing our schools