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MBA Grads Could Use an LCI Education

Posted on December 9, 2011 by Scott Noppe-Brandon

In order to succeed professionally, MBA graduates need creativity, innovation, empathy, and the ability to deal with failure, says a new Huffington Post article. These are all skills that Lincoln Center Institute (LCI) believes in, and strives to foster in students. Author and careers expert Stacie Nevadomski Berdan drew her findings from interviews with top [...]

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What We Learn from Animals: How to Play

Posted on February 9, 2011 by Linda Miles

In a January 21 Huffington Post entry, Brenda Peters writes of important lessons gleaned from the animal world: play in order to thrive. Peters, who has studied wild dolphins, writes that in play, dolphins learn essential survival and relationship skills. Rats apparently laugh more readily than humans (see the video). In some species, the absence [...]

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You Say “Creativity,” I Say “Imagination,” Let’s Not Call the Whole Thing Off

Posted on July 27, 2010 by Scott Noppe-Brandon

In a July 20 piece for The Huffington Post called “Creativity in the 21st Century,” Harvard research psychologist Shelley Carson writes about the urgent need for creativity in the globalized, technological, rapidly changing world of the 21st century. The starting point of her discussion is one of the conclusions reached at the recent G-20 summit [...]

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The Noble Workforce

Posted on April 20, 2010 by Scott Noppe-Brandon

In a March article for The Huffington Post, consultant Karen Noble makes an urgent appeal to managers to focus on workforce morale. Her specific suggestions call to mind some of the practices that Eric Liu and I outline in Imagination First. Noble frames her argument by referencing two surveys: the Conference Board shows 45% of [...]

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Emerging Issues Forum Brings Creativity in Education into Focus

Posted on February 10, 2010 by Scott Noppe-Brandon

In “More Creativity in the Classroom,” an opinion piece written for The Huffington Post, former North Carolina governor Jim Hunt expresses a vision for education with which I heartily agree. It is strikingly similar to the one embodied by the imaginative learning model of Lincoln Center Institute. “Creative thinking fuels innovation,” Hunt asserts. It leads [...]

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