The government supports social innovation through grants that could count if it reaches your community or innovative project. It will take strong support to move this nation’s overwhelmingly broken systems – that default daily into ruts and routines toward solutions for a finer future. Have you felt supported in innovative business projects you lead? Tell [...]
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Genius Transparency to Lead Innovation
Gridlock feeds ego and shuts out brainpower while transparency fosters innovation and increases trust. The more gridlock we see, the more open exchanges get lost. Have you seen bullies and cynics keep ego alive by banishing transparency through backdoor deals? Flawed leadership, whether called democracy or dictatorship generates gridlocks that block creative brainpower. Never before [...]
Urgent Call to White House – Help Teens!
Government Funds Promote Failing Secondary Schools People say stimulus money simply creates new layers of bureaucracy that prolong broken secondary school programs. My question is: How will the White House Campaign to Promote Science and Math Education support teens to climb new mental peaks? Will successful schools proliferate through fast growing charters? President Obama’s recent [...]
Renewal Races Teens to the Top
Will President Obama’s $4 billion incentive for school reform help teens use more robust brainpower to reach their real potential? Not every teen will win the title world’s best brain as Julia Chartrove won at the International Brain Research Organization. Yet all can draw on more brainpower to reach higher motivation and achievement. It may [...]
Gentle Links to Human Brainpower
When Gandhi taught, In a gentle way you can shake the world, he highlighted tone missing today in communications across cultures. Do your tone skills show gentle as a strength to shake a world? Scholar Kent Nerbum’s words, “Remember to be gentle with yourself and others,” highlight intelligences that cultivate tools to live calmly under [...]
Brains Offer Olive Branch to Enemies
Have you every compared the differences between brains honed to disagree well, and those who generate cynicism when they differ. Contrast the difference between an olive branch offered to enemies, and a weapon poised for war? Cynicis criticized President Obama’s reach of peace to Chavez, while peacemakers saw an olive branch like a US charm’s [...]
Reflect to Extend Daily Reach
To reflect is to shuffle the human brain out from its daily ruts, rouse it from from routine resting places and compel it into wider reaches. Reflection often signals a lofty vision, not evident to a non-reflective mind. What’s your mind-bending aspiration? According to Robert Lee Holtz, Wall Street Journal Science Columnist, Researchers found that [...]
