If collaboration doesn't produce the best results (SLNYT), why do we keep trying to force people to work collaboratively? Previously
posted by stinker on Jan 19, 2012 - 46 comments

The effectiveness of groups, teamwork, collaboration, and consensus is largely a myth. So why then do we put so much stock in the opinions of many, and so little in the opinion of one?
posted by c:\awesome on Sep 9, 2006 - 64 comments

Camille Paglia: WHAT went wrong at Harvard? "Over the past 40 years, there has been a radical expansion of administrative bureaucracies on American college campuses that has distorted the budget and turned education toward consumerism, a checkbook alliance with parents who are being bled dry by grotesquely exorbitant tuitions."
posted by semmi on Mar 6, 2006 - 46 comments