Recently, some instructors at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
questioned my qualifications for teaching a business seminar. This issue drew
plenty of mockery (for both sides of the argument) in the local press.

Since the predominant theme of all my seminars - at several universities
- is the importance of asking useful
questions, I'd like to answer one that none of the critics has bothered to ask:
Why do I teach the way I do?

Of course, that question breaks down into several others:Why do so many...