- Sep 2019
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www.npr.org www.npr.org
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There's a grassy vacant lot near her apartment where Franklin often takes a break from her job as a landscaping crew supervisor at Bon Secours Community Works, a nearby community organization owned by Bon Secours Health System. It's one of the few places in the neighborhood with a lot of shade — mainly from a large tree Franklin calls the mother shade. She helped come up with the idea to build a free splash park in the lot for residents to cool down in the heat. Now Bon Secours is taking on the project. "This was me taking my stand," Franklin says. "I didn't sit around and wait for everybody to say, 'Well, who's going to redo the park?' "
Reminiscent of the story in Judith Rodin's The Resilience Dividend about the Kambi Moto neighborhood in the Huruma slum of Nairobi. The area and some of the responsibility became a part of ownership of the space from the government. Meanwhile NPR's story here is doing some of the counting which parallels the Kambi Moto story.
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- Jun 2019
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www.mcsweeneys.net www.mcsweeneys.net
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6. Don’t worry ahead of time how committee members feel about issues — you can find out at the meeting.
Dr. Spreitzer, I was wondering what you thought of this one in light of the article you co-authored on Relationship Quality and Virtuousness.
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webuser.bus.umich.edu webuser.bus.umich.edu
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Gretchen M. Spreitzer
This article was co-authored by our very own Dr. Spreitzer. Dr. Spreitzer, what was your greatest insight from this study?
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- Mar 2017
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brainblogger.com brainblogger.com
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Basically, an organism experiences too much or too little of something either within them or around them in the environment (i.e. something deviates from neutrality or optimum balance), which is then detected by our brains (i.e. via neural maps of the body).
That reminds me of a complex-adaptive system and an external condition or intervention that makes the resilience of the system kick in to cope with the threat to have its system functions remain intact. So emotions could be the body-mind-soul complex's defense mechanism.
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