Leadership comes in many forms (such as transactional, transformational, and distributed) and its effectiveness can inspire others to achieve organisational goals and visions. Inspiration as an emotional event requires receptiveness and an awareness of social interdependence. When mentees are inspired by mentor role models they can extend personal attributes and practices. Similar to other lead...

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Design cognition studies aim at describing designers’ mental strategies for solving design problems. So far, research has been focusing on the idea generation phases of design process and the early stages of design (before the very first ideas are generated) still remain incompletely understood. Yet, the preparation phase, called “fact-finding” by Osborn and “collect” phase by Schneiderman, is ...

Little is known about the experiences that influence entering medical students' internal concepts of themselves as future physicians. During orientation to medical school, students were asked to write stories in response to the cue, "Tell a story about a person or experience that inspired you to consider a career of service in medicine." Qualitative methodology was employed to analyze 190 stude...