(2004-06-24) Stanley School Risk Training

Tom Peters excerpts Richard Farson's Whoever Makes the Most Mistakes Wins: The Paradox of Innovation (ISBN:0743225929 ) - In his career-long study of millionaires, Thomas Stanley has not only found no correlation between success in school and an ability to accumulate wealth, he's actually found a negative correlation... What did predict economic success was a willingness to take risks. By contrast, the success-failure standards of most schools penalized risk takers. (Educating Kids, Risk Management)