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Leading For Good

Great Leadership By Dan

I concluded I could be successful by aggressively sharing credit with others on any success I had. Assuming he could not pursue this new course at Goldman, Mark prepared to leave. And I realized that my clout in that job came from people remembering I had been a pretty successful commercial guy. He said, ‘Don’t quit.

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2 Big Opportunities for Incredible Change!

Marshall Goldsmith

The vision for Ethical Coach is to support 64,000 NGO, non-profit and children’s charity leaders each year in accessing coaching. In the heart of successful coaching, there is the transformational belief that it is possible to make a positive impact. How can coaching end extreme poverty, promote equality and protect the planet?

NGO 70
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5 Lessons from an Office on the Edge

Mills Scofield

For the last three years, I have satiated this string of my DNA with an unconventional job – as Executive Director of a small NGO addressing maternal and child survival in slums of Mali, West Africa, where health outcomes are among the lowest in the world. To find success, we have to fail. Which carries greater risk.

NGO 175
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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). Fausto helped us grow from nothing into a team of 15 people and about 500 farmers, at which point Fausto’s leadership started to falter.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Jim Kim (President of the World Bank), Peter Drucker (founder of modern management), Paul Hersey (noted author, teacher, and personal mentor of mine), and Warren Bennis (one of the world’s greatest leadership thinkers of his time). Has been recognized as the World’s #1 Leadership Thinker. Co-founder Partners in Health.

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How Social Entrepreneurs Can Have the Most Impact

Harvard Business Review

Leading MBA programs have doubled the number of courses they offer that have social enterprise content. My colleagues Jeff Bradach and Abe Grindle point out that even the most successful social enterprises are reaching only a fraction of the need. The biggest success story in the U.S. Leadership Social enterprise'

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The Changing Role of Global Leaders

Harvard Business Review

It is indicative of a new generation of leadership emerging at the top of many of the world's largest organizations. And of course, more pressure on climate. To most of us, this did not sound like typical corporate strategy, but Polman's reframing of what it means to succeed in business is not an isolated example.