{"id":595,"date":"2015-06-15T15:35:32","date_gmt":"2015-06-15T19:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/winfieldhouse.net\/blog\/?p=595"},"modified":"2015-06-15T15:43:19","modified_gmt":"2015-06-15T19:43:19","slug":"business-leaders-and-montessori","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/winfieldhouse.net\/blog\/business-leaders-and-montessori\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Leaders and Montessori"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winfieldhouse.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/largeNewGoogleLogoFinalFlat-a.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-596\" src=\"https:\/\/winfieldhouse.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/largeNewGoogleLogoFinalFlat-a-300x116.png\" alt=\"largeNewGoogleLogoFinalFlat-a\" width=\"300\" height=\"116\" srcset=\"https:\/\/winfieldhouse.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/largeNewGoogleLogoFinalFlat-a-300x116.png 300w, https:\/\/winfieldhouse.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/largeNewGoogleLogoFinalFlat-a-1024x396.png 1024w, https:\/\/winfieldhouse.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/largeNewGoogleLogoFinalFlat-a-960x368.png 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>We recently came across a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/ideas-market\/2011\/04\/05\/the-montessori-mafia\/#?mod=wsj_valettop_email\" target=\"_blank\">Wall Street Journal article from 2011<\/a> about business leaders who credit their Montessori educations for giving them a business advantage. These leaders include the founders of both Google and Amazon, who were both interviewed for the piece. The Wall Street Journal gave a tongue-in-cheek title to the story, &#8220;The Montessori Mafia.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Around the same time, the <em>Harvard Business Review <\/em>published &#8220;Montessori Builds Innovators,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2011\/07\/montessori-builds-innovators\" target=\"_blank\">a reflection on the WSJ article<\/a> written by Andrew McAfee, a professor at MIT.\u00a0 McAfee&#8217;s recollections of the Montessori math materials are especially interesting to read.<\/p>\n<p>Happy reading!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We recently came across a Wall Street Journal article from 2011 about business leaders who credit their Montessori educations for giving them a business advantage. These leaders include the founders of both Google and Amazon, who were both interviewed for the piece. The Wall Street Journal gave a tongue-in-cheek title to the story, &#8220;The Montessori [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":596,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[206,207,204,205,12,208,209,203],"class_list":["post-595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-world","tag-alumi","tag-alums","tag-business","tag-leadership","tag-montessori","tag-montessori-alumni","tag-montessori-graduates","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/winfieldhouse.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/winfieldhouse.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/winfieldhouse.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winfieldhouse.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winfieldhouse.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/winfieldhouse.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":601,"href":"https:\/\/winfieldhouse.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions\/601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winfieldhouse.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/winfieldhouse.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winfieldhouse.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winfieldhouse.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}