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Written by Malik Watkins
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Many of us have had someone who has been in a mentoring position within our lives. As we reflect on those relationships, we can say that from some mentors we have gained much and from others we gained not much at all. In reality, there are those who are in a position to be mentored by us who could say the same thing about their mentoring relationship with us. Much of this variation can be attributed to a lack of awareness on the primary purpose of mentoring.
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Read more: The Purpose of Mentoring: Update Your Identity
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Written by Malik Watkins
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Taking Ownership and Responsibility as a component of Cultural Leadership is highly dependent upon our ability to self-reflect on how our decisions influence the quality of our lives. This reflection comes about from peering deeply into both a physical and mental mirror that allows us to develop a better understanding of our personal identity. This understanding becomes the image we have of ourselves. We expand the power of this process through our ability to pull in life's many experiences to broaden our view of ourselves. However, the power of self-reflection is highly limited when the only image we see in the mirror is ourselves. Reflection becomes a more powerful tool when our experiences are more comprehensive, and it is weaker when our experiences are limited; hence, the term - narrow minded!
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Read more: Culture of Indifference vs. Taking Responsibility
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Written by Malik Watkins
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Discussing abstract aspects of career decision making and unemployment/underemployment allows us to insert into our dialogue specific and aggregate characteristics of the Black labor force and the degree to which these characteristics match with what is currently or is projected to be in demand within the broader labor market. Addressing the problems of unemployment in the Black community is going to take quite a bit more effort than what is entailed in lobbying the POTUS or any government agency to solve the problem. Taking Ownership of this problem involves improving our understanding of economics; pressuring educational institutions to develop more effective linkages with the broader market; and, appropriately mentoring the generations on how to make sound career decisions. A singularly racialized lens focuses specifically on Black unemployment and ignores the concept of aggregate demand. Abstractly, however, we would ask "what are the characteristics of the labor commodity being provided by a large number of Blacks that is no longer in demand"?
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Read more: Mentoring: Education, Training and Leadership
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Written by Malik Watkins
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Of the many lessons we should have learned as a result of the economic crisis, is that economists were so focused on abstract concepts, that the dynamics of consumer behavior were ignored. Likewise, those who are unreflectively free-marketers became so enamored with the growth of the markets under de-regulation, that they ignored the need for some degree of regulation as a result of the propensity of some to become ensconced in greed to the detriment of others. An additional lesson, however, regards the need for those who are so focused on individual characteristics, such as race or income, to take a step back and become more abstract in their own thinking and approach to problem solving.
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Read more: Abstract Mentoring: Linking Education and Careers
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Written by Malik Watkins
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While Geology tends to emphasize the study of our planet, it also includes the development of our humanity and our interactions with the environment. Geological terms are generally only interesting to those who are actively engaged in the field. But the recent pronouncement that we have evolved into a new age should elicit some thought. Many Geologists now refer to the era in which we are now living as Anthropocenic: The Age of Man.
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Read more: Black Culture in the "Age of Man"
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