Living out the business experience vs pontificating, lecturing

Looking forward to the future of business

This post has taught in a GSB in the 4 walls of the academe but always wanting to be extraterritorial.  We went to restos, to sites of businesses owned by the students, we went on experimentation to give reality to what we were talking about in the classroom.  We asked students to come with illegal business ideas, we asked for business plans.  Not so much of lectures or academe (but which the succeeding dean killed ending my teaching career)

It was going back to textbook reading, chapter by chapter and answering review questions.  Life was never made that way.   And having departmental tests:   select the best answer.  True or false

My post here are not lectures but real experiences as we navigate negotiation and formulation of business ideas.  In real world.  Not from textbook

Blogs Are Looked Down in the Academe?!

Our generation needs an ENTREPRENEURIAL REVOLUTION.

Yesterday in the faculty meeting, I asked the opinion of my colleague on this undertaking and said blogs do not count; they are just journals and opinions are involved in trending and social thing. They do not count in the academe and is not considered a research or publication. (I could understand that - there are millions of bloggers but very limited number of professors) I was rather disappointed. I put in a lot of thoughts and effort in this blog to counted out by peers. There are some questions though:

l. Why is my blog being read abroad?
2. Why are the tweets accompanying the blogs via feedburner being retweeted or quoted by other entrep gurus abroad?
3. Why are other business experts following me on my tweets?
4. I thought that creative thinking, innovation, and critical thinking is encouraged in the academe? Arent there original thoughts and critical thinking in blogs?
5. What are tech tips and advice that work for others? If they work in real life then, since it is not in a journal form, it is not useful to the academe?

Perhaps, some education of the colleagues on blogs is necessary. They may not be up to date on social media. They are not up to date on self mastery. They are behind their students.