High-performing employees are no different than gifted students, nor are the approaches for creating them. When the “Johnnie Can’t Read” stories began attracting national attention in the United States during the 1970’s, the educational “crisis” was seen to be primarily the problem of professional educators and parents. It was almost another decade before expressions of concern began to creep into the business press. Escalating portions of training budgets devoted to remedial skills were the first warning signs. As increasing numbers of businesses move toward team- based structures and delegated leadership and decision making, this concern has launched a widening search — in the schools and at the workplace — for more successful ways to prepare people for modern business.

This e-book explicates two independent, yet fundamentally similar, efforts — a ground-breaking eight-year- old educational research and development project, and a thirty-year-old approach to organization development — offer valuable insights into what those ways might look like. As a means of understanding what they have to offer, we examine here the fundamental principles that these two independent efforts share, and the results of their application, both in schools and in the workplace. 20 pgs

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