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Wandering Off the Beaten Path: Re-Imagining the Gift of Distraction

One element of our co-editorship that we value highly is the opportunity to think about interesting topics that come up when we are apart, muse collaboratively about them when we are together (or text about them when we MUST share right away), and then develop and write these editorials. We view the Editors’ Corner as our forum for teasing out insights and beginning or extending conversations about some of the most pressing issues within the scholarship of teaching and learning in management education practice. To date, we have been thrilled at the discussions our editorials have engendered as we interact with our domain’s community around the world. We come to our subject for this editorial by dint of our new and widereaching campus roles. Recently, Jeanie became president of her institution’s faculty senate and Kathy took on co-director responsibilities for her institution’s study abroad/multilingual learner office. Our individual decisions to take on these additional responsibilities resulted from a combination of institutional need, personal interest, and a fair amount of administrative lobbying. However, before either of us said “yes,” we talked together about the potential