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Education, Inclusion, Leadership, Neuroscience
October 24, 2023
The Cultural Influence of Birth Order on Management Style
The concept of birth order has long been a hot subject for many different “-ological” researchers: psychological, sociological, and anthropological. Because of this, the impact of birth order on personality traits, career choices, and relationships has been rather well documented. However, an underexplored facet of this influence is its impact...
Creative Culture, Creativity, Inclusion, Intercultural Creativity, Leadership
September 29, 2022
IT’S YOUR TURN
Take care how you place your moccasins upon the Earth, step with care, for the faces of the future generations are looking up from the earth, waiting their turn for life.Wilma Mankiller, First Woman Chief of the Cherokee Nation, Native American Activist If you are reading this, you have been...
Creative Culture, Creativity, Education, Inclusion, Intercultural Creativity, Leadership
September 8, 2022
Cultural Curiosity
Curiosity. According to the Merriam Webster Dictionary, curiosity is the desire to know…interest leading to inquiry… Did it really kill the cat? Well, we know curiosity didn’t kill the monkey—Curious George. He’s so adventurous that he has books, movies, and television series dedicated to his inquisitiveness. What a curious little...
Arts and Creativity, Creative Culture, Creativity, Inclusion, Intercultural Creativity, Leadership
September 1, 2022
More Bridges, Boundaries, and Boundary Spanning
We’ve been discussing boundaries and bridges lately. Why? They’re important; they matter. So, to continue with the topic of boundaries, boundary spanning, boundary riding, and being a bridge, what would some of these boundaries look like? What do they look like when put into action? Here are a few to...
Creative Culture, Creativity, Education, Inclusion, Intercultural Creativity
August 26, 2022
BUILDING BEYOND BOUNDARIES
Have you ever heard of the term boundary rider? What exactly is a boundary rider? Boundary riders are people who are bridges—bridging people, ideas, concepts, etc. together—and they tend to ride the boundaries of things due to their abilities to see things in a creative way. They actually echo the...
Arts and Creativity, Creative Culture, Creativity, Inclusion, Intercultural Creativity
August 18, 2022
BEING A CREATIVE BRIDGE
Are you a creative? Do people usually express how they enjoy hanging around you because of the excitement of creativity you give off? Let’s think creativity for a moment. What does it mean to be creative but most importantly being a creative bridge? Interesting, right? How often do you think...
Arts and Creativity, Creativity, Education, Inclusion, Intercultural Creativity, Leadership, Neuroscience
August 11, 2022
AN INTEGRATED BRAIN IS AN INTEGRATED LIFE
When thinking of the word integration, what generally comes to mind? Do we even correlate integration with the mind? Oftentimes, we don’t. Integration doesn’t just happen within the classroom; it also happens within your brain. Dr. Daniel Siegal, a neuropsychiatrist and the Mindsight educator out of UCLA, is a thought...
Creative Culture, Creativity, Education, Inclusion, Intercultural Creativity, Leadership, Neuroscience
July 23, 2022
JOURNEY OF A SNOWFLAKE
Snowflakes. Many things come to mind when thinking about snowflakes. We think of cold weather, the winter season, snow. Sometimes we even associate it with those cute elementary school projects where snowflakes were made out of construction paper, but have you ever thought about snowflakes from the perspective of a...
Creative Culture, Inclusion
July 21, 2022
The Comfortable, The Uncomfortable, and A Couple of Perspectives
Ah, the joys of comfort: a comfortable bed, couch, work schedule, hobbies, life, and on and on the list goes. Is it possible to ever have too much comfort? If things remain in a constant state of comfort, could that potentially be preventing areas of growth? Perhaps. That’s why it...
Creative Culture, Education, Inclusion, Intercultural Creativity, Leadership, Neuroscience
May 26, 2022
Adapting, Creativity, and the Future of Work
The world is ever changing. We have gone from mobile phones having only 1740kb of memory to smartphones being able to do everything except bake a roast. There was a time when store catalogs would arrive in our physical mailboxes. Now catalogs, magazines, periodicals, and more are mostly digital. You...