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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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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This week saw the conviction of former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort on five counts of tax fraud, two counts of bank fraud, and one count of failure to disclose a foreign bank account. Simultaneously,Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen pled guilty to five counts of tax evasion, one count of making a false statement to
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In a world of smartphones, computers, social media and the internet, the question of how we humans understand our relationship with technology has become paramount. Studies show that too much technology is debilitating on human brain function, stifles emotions, affects our memories, and leads to all sorts of antisocial behavior. Addictions to various forms of
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Raji Jayasinghe, our VP for Asia and Press Officer, and Dilini Gunasekera, our Country Director for Sri Lanka, and I just spent two weeks in Sri Lanka developing a range of partnerships that are positioning Ubiquity to provide high quality education for Sri Lanka and the Asian market. This is an extremely exciting opportunity for
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Take a look at this from Stephen Colbert today: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/stephen-colbert-trump-putin-intervention_us_5b517dfde4b0b15aba8d520b He pierces to the heart of our situation. This is all hands on deck now. Putin and Trump have formed an alliance to destroy the world system as we know it and rebuild it in their image as mafiosi thugs, which will start by destroying
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The course offered by our New Chartres Academy on Geometrica July 1-8 in Chartres, France drew nearly 90 students, faculty and staff, our largest Learning Journey of the year. For seven days, the group met together to study the intricacies of geometry and the 5 Platonic solids, the basic building blocks of the universe. Contemplating
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What​ ​should​ ​learning​ ​and​ ​education​ ​be​ ​about?​ ​Not​ ​about​ ​how​ ​many​ ​hours​ ​you​ ​spend in​ ​a​ ​classroom​ ​or​ ​how​ ​many​ ​books​ ​you​ ​read,​ ​but​ ​really​ ​about​ ​what​ ​you​ ​are​ ​able​ ​to​ ​do after​ ​your​ ​learning​ ​experience​ ​that​ ​you​ ​weren’t​ ​able​ ​to​ ​do​ ​before.​ ​That​ ​can​ ​be something​ ​you​ ​can​ ​explain​ ​or​ ​do,​ ​but​ ​could​ ​also​
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The specter of infants being torn away from breast feeding mothers, young sons from their fathers, of parents being deported while their children remained in cages under a sweltering Texas sun, was a shock to America and the world. In another outrage against civility and morality, the Trump administration has been charging refugees coming across
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