Incivility costs the U.S. economy $23.8 billion each year. And academic environments are not immune. Sean Cook interviews Dr. Rajashi Ghosh of Drexel University.
Staking Your Claim: Convergence, Working the "Long Tail" and Defining Your Personal Brand
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Lessons Worth Finding and Questions Worth Asking
Over the last five years, I’ve experienced a convergence of events in my personal life that drove me to consider the need to change my circumstances and with it, hopefully my personal and professional destiny. First I became a father. Then I learned that I have a neurological disorder, which affects my mobility and is […]
Convergent thinking, convergent practice, convergent careers
The unfortunate reality of being a convergent is that people don’t get you. As I mentioned last week in my posts on game theory, convergents are hard to “get” because people try too hard to fit them neatly into their own boxes (or circles) and to define what they know and what they do in […]
The Game I’m Playing: Putting Your Purpose to Work
I work primarily with educators because we (and society) routinely undervalue what we do, and we normalize it by accepting conventional wisdom and ways of doing things that are just plain wrong. The rules, as we are taught to accept them, limit the potential of those participating in the system, by strictly defining who can or cannot play, who is allowed on certain turf, and what rules apply, whether they make sense or not. Kind of reminds you of the times in elementary school when no one picked you for kickball, right? Well, that happened to me a lot, so I stopped playing kickball.