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Fantastic suggestion by my friend Gilbert Brault: Using student interns as core group members for communities of practice in our company.

Can you imagine the learning potential? Students are always looking for internships in large corporations, and large corporations often have a hard time giving them traditional marketing, R&D or even production jobs. If students could take some of the leadership roles in our communities of practice, not only would they learn a lot about the company and the business, but our community members would learn a lot as well because they suddenly would have access to relevant academic research and expert networks through those students. I would be delighted to have a junior mechanical engineer in my woodworking community of practice. Not only could he or she alleviate some of the day-to-day logistical hassles of running the community, bu he or she could bring valuable insights, new ideas, new contacts...

Just think about it as a fascinating new way to build valuable bridges between the academic and corporate worlds. Has anyone tried this before?

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