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The Overview Effect

// February 21st, 2011 // No Comments » // Leadership Development, World Issues

Ten days ago I stood in a room with eleven thousand others deeply engaged in a bold and ambitious struggle over what they see as the civil rights issue of our generation- a real, profound and systemic education revolution towards access, equity and opportunity for all. On stage were leaders who had broken through and created a small part of the world where poverty wasn’t destiny; it was a classroom, or a school, or even part of a system, where the fact your parents were poor, or uneducated, or missing, this fact didn’t decide whether you would love to learn, whether you would dream of futures to be realised, whether you would go to college and access economic, political and cultural influence in shaping your life and your society.

The Shadow Side of Youth Leadership

// July 6th, 2010 // No Comments » // Leadership Development, World Issues

I will start by briefly highlighting two examples, one historical and one contemporary, that demonstrate some of the strikingly real dangers that youth leadership can fall to. From these, I will generalise four core obstacles that leaders must wrestle with in order to avoid such disaster. Finally, I shall describe what the world might learn from youth leaders should they master their puzzle of immaturity before the dreary and dangerous acceptance of age befalls them.

Diversity and Cultural Education

// July 5th, 2010 // No Comments » // Leadership Development, World Issues

The need for cultural education and an appreciation of diversity are not only challenges of the 20th century. Competition for resources (land, water, energy, etc) already increases pressure between societies and raises the tensions of real and perceived scarcity to bloody conflict. Conflict all too often justifies the silencing of alternative thought, belief and practice, breeding a dangerous monoculture where ideology can trump reality and incompetence, or worse, atrocity can result.

John Legend – If You’re Out There

// July 1st, 2010 // No Comments » // Art, Music & Poetry

John Legend Performs from TFA 20th Anniversary Summit on Vimeo.

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