The Times of Talent
Care Earns Trust, and Trust Lifts Performance
Researchers studied 601 manager-employee pairs in a Taiwanese conglomerate. Employees of leaders who cared and acted with integrity performed better.
From Around the WorldWhy East and West Want Different Things From Learning
Jin Li spent two decades studying how Chinese and American families think about learning. Her book explains why the same classroom can mean two different things.
From Around the WorldKindness Beats Command on the Factory Floor
A survey of 343 master-apprentice pairs in Chinese manufacturing asked which kind of master goes with real craftsmanship. The answer: the one who cares.
From Around the WorldA Spirit Festival That Doubles as a School
Every year, a small town in northeast Thailand fills with masked spirits. Behind the masks, elders are teaching the young.
From Around the WorldLead From Behind: Indonesia's Hundred-Year-Old Formula
In 1922, Indonesia's future first education minister put good leadership into three lines. Indonesian schoolchildren still grow up with the last one.
From Around the WorldThe Majlis: A Classroom Without Walls
Across the Arab Gulf, people gather in the majlis to talk, argue and solve problems together. Researchers see it as a model for collaborative learning, and for servant leadership.
From Around the WorldA Chief Is a Chief Through the People
Botswana's kgotla lets a whole community talk until it agrees. Researchers asked what school leaders could learn from it.
From Around the WorldUbuntu Travels Well
A new study compared Ubuntu leadership in South Africa and the UK. It is more common in South Africa, and it works just as well in Britain.
From Around the WorldWhat Mud Masons Know About Building People
An anthropologist spent years with minaret builders in Yemen and mud masons in Mali. His finding: the apprenticeship that teaches the craft also shapes the person.
From Around the WorldThe Apprenticeship That Ends With the Master Funding a Rival
In southeast Nigeria, a master trader trains a young apprentice for years, and then sets him up in business. A study traces how the system teaches.
From Around the WorldYour Elders Are a Library. Who Is Reading?
A Kenyan columnist calls the country's elders living libraries, and urges young people to read them while they can.
From Around the WorldThe Maasai Camp That Schools the Next Generation
In northern Tanzania, Maasai elders take young men into the bush to teach them about life and community. A new study looks at how this tradition meets modern schooling.