Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

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. Delegation. Both are great. To find success, we have to fail.

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NGO Short-term Delegation Finance 175

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2012

Recently my fellow HBR blogger Daniel Markovitz suggested that stretch goals can be demotivating, and should be replaced by confidence-building "quick wins." The key to integrating the two is to carve quick wins out of long-term goals — so that each small success is a building block towards achieving a broader challenge.

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Goal Short-term NGO Long-term 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

We then virtually convened the project’s advisers for a roundtable discussion about what they viewed as the major issues raised in the interviews, and their own counsel for executives wishing to create long-term value through a sustainable business agenda. But then more pressingly, I think, he talks about the need for system change.

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Project Advice Henderson Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2011

In the private sector, corporations achieve their goals by carefully designing business operations that are reflected in a budget and then regularly reporting on how actual profits compare to that budget. This commonly used term — "strategy" — defines the actions that make the nonprofit unique.

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Mission Statement NGO Budgeting COO 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2016

feridun akgüngör. Next, when you get to the office, take 10 minutes at your desk or in your car to boost your brain with a short mindfulness practice before you dive into activity. Doing so will help you sidestep an onslaught of distractions and short-term problems during a period of exceptional focus and creativity.

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Sharpe NGO How To Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2013

But here the community is borrowing a term from traditional venture capitalists, who know that a big part of maximizing returns is having a plan for when and how to end one''s involvement in a venture and invest resources elsewhere. The magnitude of that goal can make the right time to exit seem like "never." Either way, we exit.

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Venture Capitalist Exit Strategy NGO Mission Statement 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2013

Addressing systemic problems requires long-term commitment and cross-sector collaboration; a partial solution, such as donating equipment, is useless if workers are unable to use it or patients don''t receive their diagnoses. To do so, we enlisted one of our NGO partners to teach our IT team how to use geographic information systems (GIS).

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Health Care ROI NGO Long-term 8