Yes, which is why I assign group work—to break their habit of individualism. I do allow them to assess the relative contributions of each member of the team—I don't let the one slacker who didn't do anything free ride, and I know when one group member took on a leadership role and pulled them along kicking and…

This is so true. In high school, I took a course called "business lab," (in the late 1970s), in which we learned to use a 10-key adding machine, those IBM typewriters with weird memory cards or something, and, best of all, bookkeeping. We had a packet of material that represented a small company's transactions,…

I work in higher ed administration and sometimes people ask me what the most useful thing I learned in grad school was... I'm not really joking when I say "how to use Excel." I mean, I learned a lot of good stuff... but most useful on a day to day basis... Excel lol.