Deans and academic colleagues are collectively involved in the delivery of business education. Yet their perspectives on teaching and learning can vary significantly reflecting the distinctive position from which they view the process. The dean's perspective is shaped by external drivers and reference groups that are very different from those shaping the perspective of academics on the educational front line. Despite commonality of background there can be mutual incomprehension of each other's worlds and associated world view. Sharing the obsessions of deans around teaching and learning is critical to addressing such incomprehension and enhancing the delivery of business education.