Reading Time: 5 minutes On the topic of preparing students for the jobs of the future, Mr. Hesham Metwalli, a Public Policy and Education Reform advisor in MENA and Australia, has graciously accepted my invitation to share his views on what this means and looks like for the Middle East Region.
Reading Time: 8 minutes First Who, Then What? – get the right people on the bus, a concept developed in Good to Great by Jim Collins – is crucial if the lessons from the global downturn 2007- 2008 have managed to get engrained into our organizational cultures and processes’ DNAs. The stakes now are higher than ever. Persistent wrong hiring for an SME may lead to annihilation and its valuable economic contribution and job creation potential along with it.
Reading Time: 5 minutes Music and arts and crafts education develop children’s manual dexterity, teamwork, discipline, self-confidence, provide an outlet for creativity and a constructive release of energy. Music and art also enable us to elevate into a different type of humans altogether where we no longer think about what makes us different from one another, but they join us in a bond of humanity.
Reading Time: 5 minutes Written by Ms. Tammy Tusek on The evolution in education and the integration of technology in the classroom.
Reading Time: 2 minutes John Milton wrote: “The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven”.
Reading Time: 5 minutes There is no alternative to clear and open communication in building trust in relationships, that includes relationships between suppliers and organizations. There is a delicate balance between confidentiality and transparency and although it is difficult but not impossible to achieve.
Reading Time: 5 minutes David Brooks wrote in The Road to Character: “career questions – what do I want from life? What can I do to make myself happy? – are not the right questions. The real question is, what does life want from me? What are my circumstances calling me to do? In this scheme of things, we don’t create our lives; we are summoned by life.
Reading Time: 6 minutes “Your playing small does not serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” Marianne Williamson.
