Samantha Miller  has created a list of 100 Cutting Edge Blogs: What You Won’t Learn in B-School.

In the spirit of full disclosure, the blog you are reading is on the list.  We do not know Samantha, and were pleasantly surprised when she e-mailed us to tell us we were included.

Samantha has scoured the blogosphere to bring you 100 blogs that will fill in the gaps left by your formal business education.

The blogs on the list are animated by the spirit of the following bit of wisdom:  Training teaches the rules but experience teaches the exceptions.

Whether you traffic in the world of science, marketing, consulting or high tech product invention, you have probably learned that you crawl toward success through trial and error.

Getting a degree can’t hurt.  A degree gives you a map.  But having experience seep through your skin into your bones gives you a feel for the terrain.  And that is a very different capability. 

It is said that it takes ten years  to make a great lawyer; ten years to make a great surgeon; ten to make a great musician, etc., etc. I think Malcolm Gladwell recently underlined this old truth in Outliers, his book about great achievement.

Samantha’s blog is divided into categories, and I’m sure you will find it useful, with or without a map.