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Unlocking Corporate Social Responsibility: 10 Impactful Ways to Give Back as a Business Owner

Strategy Driven

You can achieve it at every step of the production process. Having any volunteer experience will help them ahead in their career. Work with the NGO to reform the affected after the disaster has passed. The most common eco-friendly practice is minimizing waste: during manufacturing or when providing services.

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Leading For Good

Great Leadership By Dan

Yet at one point, we had a very big business because we had all these products specialists and regional people wanting to work on our deals.” We were by far the first environmental NGO to move. careers CEOs Christoph Lueneburger Mark Tercek sustainability' And I discovered there was no penalty for sharing credit.” Then we grew.

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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. A version of this was originally published in Switch and Shift.

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Top Leaders of 2010 | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

He had a successful career in ministry and was in good churches, but he felt God calling him to this assignment. She has only been finished her Residency in anesthesia for little over a year and is coordinating international WHO’s and the efforts of the likes of the Clinton Foundation, The UN and othe NGO’s. She’s 37.

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The Buzz on Green Business in China

Harvard Business Review

The article shows how the Dutch firm AkzoNobel is growing in China, particularly through products that help customers reduce environmental footprint in the shipping and building sectors. Each major government ministry in China was pitching green products and services at the tradeshow. Its another thing to see the green focus up close.

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Change the World Without Losing Yourself

Harvard Business Review

And so a young girl, whose calling — and whose value to the world — may really be to dance, or to build an industry, is hypnotized into becoming the fundraising director for an NGO. What difference does industry make, when it creates new products and jobs that make life better for others? What difference does passion make?

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Why So Many of Us Experience a Midlife Crisis

Harvard Business Review

A mid-career crisis can happen to anyone. When it does, it inflicts pain on the individual suffering it and causes productivity losses for employers. Mid-career crises are, in fact, a widespread regularity, rather than the misfortune of a few individuals. In short, a mid-career crisis does not discriminate.

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