Harnessing humility to avoid getting burned when the experiential fire becomes a garbage fire

Management educators who attend MOBTS, inspired by other educators and practitioners are generally open to new experiences, and learning from others’ great ideas. But sometimes the experiential fire which we try to harness burns us instead. Well-intentioned new ideas fail. Oft-practiced activities drawn from our society’s own journals aren’t executed in our own classrooms as well as they were drawn up on the pages of those journals. Most educators can likely reflect on their own classroom situations gone awry; That is what this session learning from each others' failure and harnessing the power of instructor humility to do so.