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Leading For Good

Great Leadership By Dan

My friends were all doing sexier things like technology, communications, or financial services.” 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. He decided to move in that direction.

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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. Motivation. Which carries greater risk.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Authority on new technology and communication. Asheesh Advani – President and CEO, Junior Achievement Worldwide – the largest NGO dedicated to teaching young people about entrepreneurship and financial literacy. Creator of The Situational Coaching Model, author of 5 books including Coaching for Breakthrough Success.

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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. Take the issue of youth unemployment.

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Accelerating Customer Adoption at the Bottom of the Pyramid

Harvard Business Review

It starts with a trickle : To illustrate this challenge from my own experience, let's look at the example of drip irrigation , a technology that has been around for more than 50 years. This technology has been shown to save water and labor, and to increase yield in a variety of crops. In the trenches : Why is behavior entrenched?

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How to Bounce Back After Getting Laid Off

Harvard Business Review

.” Your goal is to find out what’s going on in a given sector and organization and “learn what success looks like” in it, he says. The “language people use to describe success” should be reflected in “ your LinkedIn profile ,” he adds. Sustain momentum. “It was perfect.

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What’s Different About Enterprise IT in Africa

Harvard Business Review

Another example of an infrastructure patch that has already gotten attention in the West is BRCK, the spin-off commercial service from renowned NGO Ushahidi. Traditional training courses often fly into cultural walls of hierarchy and formality that prevent managers from falling in line.

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