Teaching without a Net

It was about 15 years ago that Steve Meisel (LaSalle University - Philly) and I led off an Eastern Academy of Management meeting with the theme; "Teaching without a Net". Do you remember the world back then? You Tube would have been a ranking, as in "Pick up that sweat sock, you dumb tube". Now, we have this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fi4fzvQ6I-o) We said that managers were working without a net back then. Imagine how scary the view is from up on today's managerial high wire! Back then, the arena below was encircled as mainly a domestic marketplace. Today, the Globe. Yet, I told a highly respected management educator colleague in an e-mail this morning that I believe we professoral management eductors are the most protected and insulated of all who are in the galaxy of managerial leaders whom we serve. Why be entreprenuerial in our teaching? Take risks that our more radical views and learning venues will blow up in our faces, rather than "blow learner minds"? Hell, Steve and I were worng. We did have a safety net back then. We have it (somewhat) now. However, how long will they come to us for our wisdom, if we dish out pablum?