T.Davis

  If you were to have asked me as a child whether I lived in individualistic or collective society, I would not have hesitated to guess collective. I would have guessed wrong. The United States is a prime example of an individualist culture . Individualistic cultures promote an independent self-concept, whereas collective cultures promote interdependency in the like (Bhawuk & Munusamy, 2010). Idiocentric individuals, who practice more individualistic approaches, and allocentric individuals, who practice more collective approaches can be found in cultures practicing in both styles. Seeing multiple generations of my family so interconnected, interdependent on one another, I would never have considered that we were a part of an individualistic culture. Later in life, outside of siblings, parents, spouses, etc., I started to feel that same interconnectedness to others, strangers. To the best of my ability, my self-identified self-concept would be more so an allocentric. Thinking ba...

       What?  In leadership, courage can be a catalyst for moving forward and creating space for global change. Similar to how leadership does not equal power, courage does not equal fearless (Novogratz, 2020). Courage is what allowed Novogratz to initialize her entrepreneurial experiences, with encouragement from her parents who believed she could do anything; Their belief in her and her siblings funneled into her having that same faith in herself (Novogratz, 2020). Being afraid does not make us small, it is not believing we can move towards our goals despite our fear that can keep us small (Novogratz, 2020). Novogratz writes about her uncomfortable and unsafe experience with a man whom she babysat for and how this experience, though her parents taught her to be courageous, allowed her lack of faith in herself to drive her actions and decisions. So What? While parents or adults in our lives may show us how to and encourage us to utilize our courage, there may...