Dr. Kurt Love

You know, this is something that's been evolving over time for me, but it seems that there are a lot of areas where they're overlapping between the world of education and business makes sense.

And I think a lot of times people have thought in one direction, how business can influence education, but it's become more and more obvious to me that there's some skill sets in education that make a lot of sense to have become more at the forefront of leadership within business.

So a little bit of that is where we as teachers have to, I always joke about this, right?

But getting a bunch of 12 and 13-year-olds to do algebra, this is not something that 12 and 13-year-olds wake up to every morning and go, gee, I can't wait to go do algebra.

So how does that actually happen, right?

What we do as teachers is we become really, really...

very high tuned in how do we create relationships?

How do we create support?

How do we sort of maximize and optimize somebody's ability to be productive?

And that just makes sense in the business world or in any organization, really.

It can be a nonprofit.

It can be a government agency.

I think a lot of times when we become adults, you know, the adulthood can be quite a grind every day and be filled with challenges.

And if it's good stress, stress that's helping us grow and feel accomplished and challenging us in ways that are just overall positive, that's a good thing.

But if it's the kind of grinding down chronic stress that doesn't seem to relent, it doesn't seem to have any goals in mind, that can really be.

bring us down.

And I think there's something to be noticed and something that we can lean into in terms of management, in terms of leadership, and just in terms of really supporting each other through the different goals and the different projects that come with our jobs and our workplace.

So there's a lot of, I think, learning that can happen that can be really, really profitable and make the workplace a lot better for everybody, leaders and staff included.

So that's kind of the overlap that I see.

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