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How to Have an Impact without Electricity and the Internet

Mills Scofield

I find myself hammering out emails at 11PM on Sunday with the TV on and my phone lighting up with messages. Last month, Kona was in San Francisco meeting Arnold Ambiel , Director of Operations for One World Futbol. Little did he know we were already connected – through bonds of purpose, passion and our alma mater.

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Voice of Experience: Augusta Sanfilippo (Citi)

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is an excerpt from a profile of Augusta Sanfilippo (Managing Director, Cash Securities Operations IT, Citi) written by Melissa J. Anderson for The Glass Hammer, an online community designed for women executives in financial services, law and business.

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Followers Don’t See Their Leaders as Real People

Harvard Business Review

They may be flesh and blood to the senior team and the assistants in the C-suite, but to people in outer orbits, from operational departments to business units, they are imaginary constructs. He instructed employees to take hammers in hand — not to fix the flaws but to destroy the imperfect products. They’re mental images.

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What Good Is Impact Investing?

Harvard Business Review

With something like the Riker’s Island social impact bond (which finances behavioral therapy for 16-to-18-year-old jail inmates in New York), the fact that Bloomberg Philanthropies provides a guarantee to that bond is very, very smart because it does two things. Noble: Economies and business operate in very complex systems.