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Servant Leadership Observer ? November 2010

Modern Servant Leader

How to Handle a Seagull Manager. Who Is Accountable for Your Career? Why Meetings Suck (Costs) & How to Reveal It. Careers for Servant Leaders. Peer-to-Peer Microfinance: A Sustainable Solution to Poverty. Innovation. Speedboat or Sailboat Leadership: Which Do You Practice? The Answer May Surprise You.

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How Social Entrepreneurs Can Have the Most Impact

Harvard Business Review

You can find the answer to the timing question nestled among the facts that David Bornstein lays out in the preface to his book, How to Change the World. Civic Ventures had recently released its first survey of baby boomers and found at least half were interested in “ encore careers ” helping others. In the broader U.S.

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Entrepreneurship Needs to Be a Bigger Part of U.S. Foreign Aid

Harvard Business Review

.” Laudable as these may be, USAID, the State Department, and other government agencies should really be backing programs that stimulate and support scalable, innovative, job-creating businesses – the kinds of companies that are antidotes to mass unemployment and economic hopelessness, not microfinance.

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How to Make Room in Your Work Life for the Rest of Your Self

Harvard Business Review

If the hum of your career has become so deafening that you struggle to hear those other parts of your life, you’re not alone. Another approach is to consider how your identities complement each other. Crafting and sustaining a multifaceted identity is challenging for todays’ workers and their organizations.

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Entrepreneurs: You're More Important Than Your Business Plan

Harvard Business Review

But he also understood that while a career as a professional athlete was extremely unlikely, sports itself was a multi-billion dollar industry with great opportunity as coaches, trainers, even youth camp organizers. Here are our four rules we use to evaluate the underlying business concept: Innovation.