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By Peter Cochrane

Published: Monday 25 February 2008


Name

Walter Derzko, Smart Economy, Canada


Location

Toronto


Occupation

President smart Economy


Comment

Great story, Peter.

I have a similar anecdote.

I used left-over three-part, carbonless paper forms in my Entrepreneurship and Innovation class for in-class assignments. I kept the top copy to mark and the students kept the bottom two carbon copies for home use. The forms were from a strategy course from the 1980s.

After the first round of exercises I had to give detailed instructions on how to use carbon paper to the class because most people got it wrong - so much for self assumption testing.

One person thought this was the greatest idea and later asked me in the hall if I invented this...



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