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Fiction: All managers are leaders, and all leaders are managers.

Fact: Management and leadership are two different concepts. BUT each is an essential part of your toolbox, as you near completion of the Saylor Business Administration major.

Another fact: BUS401: Management Leadership is now available on iTunes U, and it is our course o’ the week!

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In keeping the buzz going, and in-case-you-missed-it, we’ve got some good things going on in K-12! Open Matters, the blog from MIT  Open Courseware, picked up and re-shared a message that went out earlier today over our mailing list. We’re posting the message (penned by Rachel) down below, but first we’re going to give a shout-out to Open Matters (thanks for spreading the word) — add ‘em to your reading list — and suggest that, if you haven’t already, follow our blog and sign up for our mailing list! We’ll make it worth your while, and it’s super-easy; just look up above the post and click on these buttons:

Done? Cool. You can click on the other buttons, too (you know, if you want)…and read on for a recap of our K-12 release news…

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You’ve probably seen this already, and we haven’t exactly gone to great lengths to hide it, but today it’s official:

Our first batch of K-12 courses, aligned to Common Core State Standards and built to be as open as possible, have been released.

None of us is happier than Angelyn Pinter, who’s been working non-stop on this since the middle of last year. We’ll be sharing more thoughts on the program this week and next, but here’s the quick version:

• Ideal for teachers, parents, students, homeschools
• Vetted, organized, well-structured content
• 3 Math, 1 ELA, 1 Common Core primer live now
• Full set of 6-12 + AP-style ELA and Math coming soon
• K-5 and additional subjects in the future

Let us know if how you plan to use these, what you’d like to see, and share with your parent/teacher/homeschool friends!

Interested in  starting a business? Got an idea that might just yield a profit? Or maybe you’re looking to expand your current entrepreneurial endeavors? Then let’s get to work, and rejoice! BUS 305: Small Business Management is now available on iTunes and it’s our course o’ the week!

Learn how to best analyze and evaluate these ideas and write business plans as you watch video lectures, read one of the 3 e-texts,  and engage in other relevant activities.

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Today, we’re releasing BUS305: Small Business Management on our iTunes U channel. And that got us thinking: variations on the word “entrepreneur” show up 137 times.

But entrepreneurship doesn’t come easy, and it doesn’t come cheap.

Back in April, our trustee, Michael Saylor, shared some of his thoughts on getting started in business:

Compare that to this quote from a recent blog post at The New York Times:

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