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Lessons from Amazonian Culture and Ecology for Talent Management

Mills Scofield

I studied indigenous Amazonian languages and Ethnobotany in college and managed to avoid taking any math, science or business courses (yes, I went to Brown University). My business partner, Dan MacCombie, studied Marine Biology, so he was equally inexperienced in the art of management (unless we decided to employ invertebrates).

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

They represent leaders in their own worlds with a diversity of interests that relate to the topic of coaching. Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. Stew Friedman – Practice Professor of Management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. World authority on project management.

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What the Nonprofit Sector Needs to Reach Its Full Potential

Harvard Business Review

It has InsideNGO, which works to improve the operational and management capacity of organizations in the global NGO community. What would this entity do, in a world with so many diverse charities with so many diverse political and religious views? We can, of course, continue along the way we are.

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How to Create an Effective Non-Profit Mission Statement

Harvard Business Review

Furthermore, many nonprofit managers do not instill the discipline in their organizations to use the mission on a regular basis as a tool to make decisions and achieve goals. A well-crafted mission statement allows an NGO to operate with focus and discipline. An effective strategy provides competitive advantage.

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Europe Can Find Better Ways to Get Refugees into Workforces

Harvard Business Review

To begin with, delays in starting the courses can be as long as a year after the refugee is granted asylum (during which refugees are typically ineligible to work or receive benefits). On top of that, the courses take migrants only to the very basic A1 or A2 levels on the European Common Reference for language proficiency.