People said: you can not possibly move from
the world of academe to sales; what are you thinking?
The world of academe was fast becoming mechanized and computerized.
You simply can't move from
the world of academe into real estate, I heard repeatedly.
During my final real estate training segment I did as was suggested: I interviewed with a real estate company and was told: «It's really very difficult to go from a lengthy career in
the world of academe, (that manager I later learned had been a school teacher and never produced much as a sales rep), and I don't think you have the absolute necessary outgoing salesman type personality (actually he didn't either, oddly enough).
And that it isn't likely to be a success moving from
the world of academe into the world of sales (from a manager who had been a school teacher).
And then you have people like Ozzie Logozzo, bringing his background
world of academe to this field, in no small measure.
Not exact matches
This makes theological schools, for all their relatively small size, very complex microcosms
of their larger siblings in
academe and, indeed,
of their larger social and cultural
worlds.
In partnership with Waldorf schools all over the
world, students at
Academe of the Oaks have the opportunity to study abroad.
The bottom line: This is a serious but highly imperfect attempt to nudge
academe to do more to recognize and encourage scholarship which engages the real
world of practice and policy.
Maybe in the refined and sensitive
world of American
academe this is enough to cause a flutter in the cheap seats... but we Brits are made
of stronger stuff and can tolerate (and expect) a little more vigour in discussion.
The
world outside
of academe has learnt (sometimes the hard way) about conflicts
of interest and developed structural and procedural ways to avoid / reduce them.