Hammans Stallings: Why Teaching is the Best Way to Learn Something

In Chapter 2 of 19 in his 2014 Capture Your Flag interview, strategist and management consultant Hammans Stallings answers "What Did You Learn by Teaching a Graduate-Level Innovation Class in Mexico?" Stallings shares how he has found that teaching is the best way to learn something. It comes down to taking knowledge you have and communicating it in a way that connects with students who do not have that knowledge. He learns from the back and forth process that develops by engaging his students on competitive differentiation and innovation.

Hammans Stallings is a Principal Strategist at frog design. Previously Stallings worked in strategy at Dell and investment banking at Stephens. He earned an MBA from the Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management, a MS in Technology Commercialization from the University of Texas and a BA in Economics and Psychology from the University of Virginia.