According to The Greater Good blog a recent study has shown that people who live abroad and are really immersed in a new culture are more creative than those who haven't had a similar experience:
"...the researchers consider that people who spend portions of their lives in a foreign country, and allow themselves to be absorbed into the host culture, may become practiced at seeing other perspectives and comparing different possible solutions to life’s challenges, thus boosting their skills at creative thinking."
We're not surprised. And this is just one more reason to
take place seriously.
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There is not a moment of any day where any one of us is really and truly alone anymore. We are connected via e-mail, voice mail, Facebook, Myspace, Skype, instant messaging, text messaging, etc. We are linked-in and synced-up and shaped by dozens, hundreds, and thousands of relationships. Why would you think you could work alone? Why would you want to?
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Modern organization theory has tended to objectify "the world." It teaches you to see your context as a threat, resources as scarce, your neighbors as competitors, the planet as a thing to be used until it's used up, and people as "human resources." This consumable approach to life and work is killing us, it's not too good for the organizations we care about, and it's wrecking the planet.
There are a lot of voices out there helping us make the shift from this consumable to a more renewable way of doing life and work. For example, there's a new conversation emerging around the concept of ethonomics (i.e., ethical economics). There is no single definition of ethonomics yet and, as a term, it may not even have much longevity. But in this cultural moment it is giving us a way of thinking about what it might look like to really embrace a triple bottom line:
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