Kristin Hayden, the founder of the Seattle-based OneWorld Now!, faced her share of rejection while trying to get her global leadership organization off the ground. She spent two years trying (unsuccessfully) to raise grants. When things looked bleak, Hayden stayed on course by ...
Keeping with the creativity theme from last week, what can we do to augment our creative powers? One thing we know from the field of neuroscience is that, unlike computers, the brain is very slow at individual processing. In one second, a computer ...
Yesterday I wrote a post about the "creativity crisis" recently reported by Newsweek. Over the past 20 years, American children have steadily lost ground on a long-standing creativity assessment that's strongly associated with entrepreneurship and invention. This is a serious problem. I've spent ...
If you're interested in children, education, social innovation, or, for that matter, the future of America, Newsweek's recent cover story on the "creativity crisis" by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman is a must read. It makes a powerful argument that our system of ...
I swung by the 92Y Tribeca here in New York Tuesday evening for a cool book event: Nancy Lublin, author of the new book Zilch: The Power of Zero in Business, in conversation with the Economist's Matthew Bishop, of Philanthrocapitalism fame. Lublin founded ...
Kristin Ivie, social innovation program manager for the Case Foundation, recently put together a helpful list of seven tips for changemakers and idealists at Social Citizens. There's one suggestion, however—in tip #2—that I must disagree with: that changemakers should spend 95% of their ...
In coverage of social innovation, entrepreneurs get most of the play. But intrapreneurs—employees who innovate within organizations—are key drivers of change, too. With this in mind, New York Women Social Entrepreneurs (NYWSE) launched a program earlier this year to help women become effective ...
How do you feel when you see a promising idea that's going nowhere? If you're like Scott Belsky, the founder of Behance Network, a popular online platform for creative professionals to share their work, you get very restless. Belsky spent six years studying ...
Growing up in the San Diego suburb of University City, the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) campus felt like a second backyard. As a kid, the main perks of my proximity were the University’s big grassy fields, open basketball courts, and, of ...
Several years ago, I was at my mother-in-law’s home for a social gathering and I got into a conversation with one of her guests, a woman in her 70s. She asked what I did for work. I told her I had just completed ...