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Time to Review the Reputation of Team Building Activities

HR Digest

We’d be lying if we said companies loved them either as the process of organizing and scheduling team activities for work can be quite laborious. However, time and again, organizations are reminded of the benefits of investing in the engagement levels and efficiency of their human resource. What’s not to like?

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5 Lessons from an Office on the Edge

Mills Scofield

Kris Ansin is the executive director of Mali Health Organizing Proje ct - an amazing company increasing access to primary maternal and child healthcare in Mali. It’s a troublesome and common trend in nonprofits but particularly in a small organization with a startup attitude. To find success, we have to fail.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

World leading researcher on the impact of leadership in organizations. Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez – Author of the best-selling book: The Focused Organization, Winner of the 2017 Thinkers50 Award for ‘Ideas into Practice’. Tony Marx – President and CEO, New York Public Library – the nation’s largest library system.

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The Future Economy Project: Advice from Sustainability Experts

Harvard Business Review

Toffel: I thought Paul Polman was spot-on when he was breaking down the challenge of corporate sustainability into tactical and systemic issues. But then more pressingly, I think, he talks about the need for system change. Winston : I agree with Mike that the focus on system change was notable. The result will be innovation.

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If You're Out to Change the World, How Do You Know When to Move On?

Harvard Business Review

Social enterprises, of course, are organizations designed primarily to yield social versus financial value. Sadly, there are also the investors who don''t exit at all: the international NGOs who become a permanent feature in a country, seemingly doing little more than sustaining themselves for decades. You know them.

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New Lessons from Fighting an Ancient Disease

Harvard Business Review

We at Beckton, Dickinson saw the opportunity to marry public health and business objectives through our Global Health Initiative, which we established to find sustainable ways to fortify over-burdened and under-resourced health care systems in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Make a multi-year commitment.

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It's Not All About Growth for Social Enterprises

Harvard Business Review

When organizations talk to my colleagues and me at the Skoll Foundation about growth in staff size, budget size, or client / beneficiary numbers, we often ask "So what?" For us the question is not how do you grow organizations but how do you scale impact? Multiply Impact, Don't Just Grow the Organization.