Sublime

Well before the gift to Newark, Priscilla Chan had made a personal cause of working with children like those who struggled the most in Newark. As a pediatrician caring for underserved children, she became convinced that schools, on their own, were unlikely to meet the needs of students raised amid extreme poverty and violence. Working with educator

Great teachers set high standards for all their students, not just the ones who are already achieving.

According to Professor Eric Hanushek of Stanford’s Hoover Institute, if we could eliminate just the bottom 6 to 8 percent of bad teachers, we could bring our results up to the standards of Finland, perhaps the best in the world.

As leaders, we should think of ourselves as teachers and try to create companies in which teaching is seen as a valued way to contribute to the success of the whole.