Three Choices

Filed under Work | 19 August 2009 | No comments yet

A recent post from Seth Godin highlights the choices involved in offering higher education:

There are three choices that anyone offering higher education is going to have to make …

Should this be scarce or abundant?
Should this be free or expensive?
Should this be about school or about learning?

Eight combinations of the three choices are available and my guess is that all eight will be tried. If I were going to wager, I’d say that the free, abundant learning combination is the one that’s going to change the world.

However, what I found even more interesting was that, in the present era of The Long Tail, these are essentially the choices involved in most new business enterprises!  All you need to do is replace the last one with its generic equivalent:

Think about it.  Three choices.  And, the answers will make all the difference…

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