ABSTRACT

In a conference room in London in 2004 the great American business guru Tom Peters addressed 500 of the UK’s top business leaders, the future employers of your students (people like Woolworths, MFI, Northern Rock, Whittards, Principles, you know the sort… ). But I don’t think they listened. One of his messages was this one:

Never hire the people with exceptionally high grades at university and secondary school.