#brain circulation

I hope everyone had a happy Brain Week and everyone knows a little more about how to take care of their brains. Healthy Mind is one of the all important pillars in the five pillars of health. If you didn't read my Healthy Mind blog post please catch up on it this weekend. 

If you live where Daylight Savings Time (DST) is observed remember to set your clocks forward. It is exciting to think the days will be getting longer but also sad to think we have to leave the comforts of our beds an hour earlier. Sleep is one of the most important things you will do in the next 24 hours. Visit our products page and watch the informative video about our bodies and sleep. 

if you live in the US the entire month of March is National Sleep Awareness month. Next week is especially important as we have our sleep patterns interrupted by DST. We will talk more about the importance of sleep next week. 

The zoom broadcasts this week were all very carefully thought out, informative and inspiring. We hope to post links to those as soon Nikken has them posted. 

I hope everyone is enjoying the new Magnetic Leaders website. Your comments are always welcome. We will start working on The Royal Alliance site soon and want to make sure it is a site that will give everyone the tools they need to succeed. 

Social media is an amazing way to reach and help folks that are in need. If you need help getting started or just pointers Nikken has released it's Social Media Guide and you can get that here.

Have a happy, healthy week.

 Love Dave

Vertebral and Cerebral Arteries

"By 2000, over one-third of Silicon Valley’s high-skilled workers were foreign-born, and overwhelmingly from Asia. These U.S.-educated engineers are transforming developmental opportunities for formerly peripheral regions as they build professional and business connections to their home countries. In a process more akin to “brain circulation” than “brain drain,” these engineers and entrepreneurs, aided by the lowered transaction costs associated with digitization, are transferring technical and institutional know-how between distant regional economies faster and more flexibly than most large corporations. This article examines how Chinese- and Indian-born engineers are accelerating the development of the information technology industries in their home countries—initially by tapping the  low-cost skill in their home countries, and over time by contributing to highly localized processes of entrepreneurial experimentation and upgrading, while maintain close ties to the technology and markets in Silicon Valley. However, these successful models also raise several questions about the broader relevance of brain circulation outside of several key countries, and regions of those countries, within the global South."

AnnaLee Saxenian is dean and professor at the School of Information Management and Systems and professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley. She is currently exploring how immigrant engineers and scientists are transferring technology entrepreneurship to regions in Asia.

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