by David Castro | Jul 23, 2013 | Culture, Essays
A Personal Reflection on the Trayvon Martin Case This piece was also published on the Kellogg Fellows Leadership Alliance Blog The circumstances of Trayvon Martin’s death bring back memories of my childhood. I grew up in Brooklyn in the 1970s. The Brooklyn of my...
by David Castro | Jun 2, 2013 | Creativity, Essays, Leadership
Leading creativity and social innovation requires strong organizational tools. One such tool involves beginning with the right questions. As Einstein wrote, “To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative...
by David Castro | Apr 12, 2013 | Culture, Essays, Featured, Leadership
The first duty of love is to listen. — Paul Tillich In 1994, I participated in a short training experience that changed my life. The instructions for the exercise: Be quiet for eight minutes while someone tells you his or her life story, then switch and tell your life...
by David Castro | Apr 5, 2013 | Creativity, Culture, Essays, Featured, Leadership
During the late 1990s, I had the pleasure of participating in an Outward Bound program during leadership training as Kellogg National Fellow. So many elements of that experience have stayed with me over the years. One that I often think of involved a leadership game...
by David Castro | Mar 4, 2013 | Culture, Education, Essays, Technology
Fernando’s Amazing Rubik’s Cube Internet Adventure While a forbidding blizzard swirled outside, my 12-year-old son Fernando sat at our kitchen table mesmerized by a Rubik’s Cube. After about 15 minutes spent twisting and turning the colored squares to no...
by David Castro | Feb 25, 2013 | Creativity, Culture, Essays, Leadership
In the middle of the night, I wake up thinking about this question. Why is this on my mind, you might be wondering? As an Ashoka Fellow, I find myself spending a lot of time lately explaining the meaning of the phrase social entrepreneurship. The sometimes confused...