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To Beat the Workforce Shortage, Reimagine the Workforce

Business and Tech

I have learned not to question a woman on a mission. Leilanna Barrentes is a perfect example of the change that can happen when women are given an opportunity. She had no background or experience in the construction field when she started her pre-apprenticeship training in September 2013. Helping women in action.

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Three Real World Examples of Crowdsourcing in Education

IdeaScale

Columbia has prided itself on student-driven change since its founding, and in 2013, it wanted to take that a step further with “What To Fix Columbia,” cheekily abbreviated as “WTF Columbia.” To learn more about how to use such innovative platforms, download Crowdsourcing-in-Education today!

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2013 User Experience Awards

Boxes and Arrows

The 2013 User Experience Awards were presented Tuesday, May 21, 2013, at Parson’s Tischman Auditorium in New York. Jurors of the 2013 UX Awards were: Anders Ramsay, agile UX designer & coach, UX author, leader of NYC IA Meetup and Agile Experience Design Group. Chris Jaffe, director, product innovation at Netflix.

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What Can Your Business Learn About Innovation from Shark Tank Ideas?

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The notorious Tower Paddle Boards, for example, still managed to impress Mark Cuban, who offered some financing, feedback, and valuable advice that improved the company’s fortunes. When Doorbot appeared on the show in 2013, it was a disaster, and the CEO, Jamie Siminoff, acknowledges as much. Nor is there any risk.

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Evidence that children are more creative than adults (and the opposite)

Idea to Value

A 2013 paper suggests that children engage more in imaginative play because it helps them develop the learning skills of causal-reasoning. Examples such as gardening and construction were as valuable for supporting creative thinking as ones traditionally associated with creativity, for example, music and painting.

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Impostor Syndrome

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This can be especially damaging because other successful people have often had different amounts of time to learn and practice in their field, and they are also less likely to publicly share their failures than their successes.

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Are you born creative? Is creativity genetic? The nature vs nurture debate

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For example, research into certain mental conditions like Schizophrenia show that it has a strong genetic component and runs in families. Mayseless 2013 research indicates that damage to the DRD4 gene could negatively impact someone’s ability to perform well on divergent thinking tasks. They want to fit in.