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Originally posted in our April 2023 Top of Mind Newsletter. What does it mean to be creative? Why do we need creativity in our lives? Samuel W. Franklin suggests in his new book, The Cult of Creativity, that creativity is a relatively recent idea. Sure, we’ve been creating things since before we were human, but Franklin posits that creativity as a characteristic to be measured and considered has only been around since the 1940s. This was…

Originally posted in our March 2023 Top of Mind Newsletter. At some point in your life, there’s a decent chance a teacher or facilitator has given you some simple household items and asked you to build a tower with a group of your peers. A famous experiment pits groups of kindergarteners against CEOs and other high-performing professionals, and the kindergarteners tend to win. Why? Simply put, the children go out and try lots of things quickly…

Originally posted in our February 2023 Top of Mind Newsletter. If you’re in the entrepreneurship education space, you will have heard of the lean start-up methodology many times. But, it bears repeating in the context of designing processes that serve everyone involved.  “The lean definition of a start-up: a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.” Rather than excessively planning, entrepreneurs use their most incredible resource—potential customers—to discover the best path…

Originally posted in our February 2023 Top of Mind Newsletter. Shifts in economic complexity and seemingly endless crises affect everyone. But, as the workforce shifts towards younger generations, these stressors weigh more on workers. So, rather than framing this as a deficit of Gen Z, it is essential to consider how we can adapt the workplace to be more agile and resilient. “Whatever happens outside the office walls, leaders can begin by building what [experts describe]…

Originally posted in our January 2023 Top of Mind Newsletter. An essential subset of self-employed people is the group of working mothers who were, mid-pandemic, essentially forced into it. For working mothers, there was the choice between providing care or maintaining their income. For many, losing their income was not a viable option. “Ultimately, while self-employment offers benefits to women who found traditional employment unsustainable, asking women to work – even if it’s for themselves –…