The Zen of Business

Being a management consultant necessitates one to listen to all sorts of cock-and-bull stories - almost on the verge of it being a professional hazard. Yet, of all the crap things that I have heard in the last one and a half decade, none is so consistently painful and for so long as the theory of adult learning styles - you know, the 'visual', the 'auditory' and the 'kinesthetic' learning styles. Part of my job is to facilitate learning for these 'adults' in various parts of the world, and mostly in a corporate environment, and mostly to the peril of these adults. Apart from that, I also provide vocational learning sessions for young students in business schools, as well as high school children in secondary grades. So you can see that my audience comprises of  a spectrum of age groups, and having done this for a reasonable time now, I can assure you that you have never heard of anything as lame as the theory of adult learning. Agreed, maybe when the