Let me take this moment to first celebrate the fact that I am blogging again!!!! Whew…It really feels like centuries since my last blog. The bird is out of the cage…the bear is out of the cave…and the wolves are out hunting, once more. Yep! These are the best analogies to express my freedom to […]
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For the last seven years, I worked in the world’s largest youth-led organization. I started my journey in the local office in my city in Medellin, Colombia, and went all the way to the global office. I worked my way all the way up to being in charge of Strategy at the global level and
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Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship are hot terms at the moment. Why the need though to qualify “innovation” and “entrepreneurship” with “social?” A Change of Eras We are not just in an era of change, but a change of eras. The industrial age has run its course. We are currently facing the challenges created by
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Of all the Soft Skills, building cross boundary teams is perhaps the most challenging. Historically, we humans have been very tribal. Studies conducted the world over show that we like people who look like us, we prefer food that we are used to, we largely live according to the customs that we have been taught,
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Throughout this course, you have been asked to do several reflection tasks in your Personal Journal. You have the option to submit your personal journal as well as the following: Read through your personal journal and see if you can identify key shifts in thinking or some key reflections and realizations. Summarise these key reflections
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Throughout this course, you should have been brainstorming, researching, designing, and re-designing in order to create your socio-systemic 2D Prototype. Here is where you now submit your group’s Project Diary. Your group project diary should include: Notes from your group brainstorming Your content mapping (from week 7) Any and all background research What you did
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All over the world, people, companies, schools and governments are waking up to the fact that Soft Skills matter. This is revolutionary. For the past 400 years since the beginning of The Enlightenment, everyone has thought that the only thing that was important was Hard Skills — science, engineering, technology, mathematics, business, finance. Everything was
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Reflection Task: 300 to 350 Words Please conduct the following exercise: Now that you have gained more self-awareness and completed your mapping, we are asking you to choose one of the following pieces, read it and write down your reflections on the content contained within it. Readings: If you are taking
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