There is growing interest in identifying metrics to measure the complexity of food systems and their synergistic impacts. Within the field of community nutrition, a variety of metrics have been used ...

The premise behind VIRGINIAforever is that if you can find common ground you can build on it. Now 10 years old, this nonprofit group — an alliance of businesses and environmental organizations — has ...

On Feb. 19 and 20 a diverse group of over 100 space leaders from academia, government and industry came together at the Pioneering Space National Summit in Washington. The American Institute of ...

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In an earlier article on leadership, I talked about consensus building as a leadership tool. 1 Wikipedia defines consensus building as “a group decision-making process that seeks the consent of all ...

Compliant learning. Our students do it because they go year after year consuming information rather than curating it. There have been many leaders, including George Couros, who suggest that students ...

Without concrete international action, the global quality infrastructure gap will hinder the realization of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, economic recovery from Covid-19, and the ...

The problem with consensus thinking is most people don't understand its danger. While all people may be created equal, they are certainly not all equals in the workplace. The thought all employees ...

I work as the attorney for a not-for-profit organization, at least as the attorney for the board. It seems all the dysfunction I saw working with the College Republicans, the Stony Brook Statesman ...