N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2010

He was on the creative planning team for catalyst, works with leadership development of Chick-Fil-A, and is quarterbacking many projects for well known leaders. He is rare in the world of coaching and leadership development and I feel honoured that he has chosen to partner with me to deliver our leadership workshops. She’s 37.

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Joseph Lalonde

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Find ways to grow and develop. You will be amazed at what your team can do: Tikka battled against an evil Elf, Tien (Veronica Ngo), who was hell-bent on raising the Dark Lord. Help them develop those skills and talents so your organization can benefit from them and you can be amazed. Lead anyway. The world needs you to lead.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

The vision for Ethical Coach is to support 64,000 NGO, non-profit and children’s charity leaders each year in accessing coaching. Our goal is to empower leadership development, accountability, organizational capacity, and performance enhancement for 64,000 leaders a year, who can then extend their reach to an additional 100 children a year.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 30, 2024

Engage in Community Development Identify initiatives and local development projects that help make life easier for the locals and participate in them. Develop Corporate Philanthropy Program You can also design and implement corporate philanthropy programs to help the underprivileged. Pick eco-friendly suppliers to stay green.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 7, 2019

The team developed a land cover dataset before overlaying it with detailed property records to help them identify specific land owners where the riparian areas needed better conservation. ” Precision conservation. Indeed, they had done so twice as often in the past.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. However, the company execs and NGO leaders in Beijing tell me that sustainability is still a new pursuit for Chinese companies. Besides the meeting itself, I was struck by the considerable focus on green issues in China.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

I visited Beijing last week, speaking to a group of corporate executives assembled by a major NGO to work on climate change issues. Of these 5 articles, some were self-explanatory: " Nation spurs development of new, green technologies ". " Besides the meeting itself, I was struck by the considerable focus on green issues in China.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2010

If you have the funds, or your company supports such programs, volunteer (with the help of an NGO) to live in a rural village for a week or allow your people to take mini-sabbaticals or secondments with NGOs to work on development projects.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2013

This is what is going on now in community development. It’s a valid question, but disappointingly, almost no NGO can point to evidence of impact. Meanwhile, a second trend is the growing eagerness of the private sector to play a genuine and substantial role in community development. Have they been effective?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2012

The Rio+20 Summit on sustainable development is still weeks away, and yet many already have proclaimed the event a failure. Few companies attended the original Earth Summit, and examples of company-NGO collaboration were few and far between. That verdict is based on outdated assumptions about the nature of change.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2012

These "small stretches" also energized participants and helped them develop capabilities as growth leaders. Short-term stretch goals also work with community development and not-for-profit initiatives. As one manager said, "I learned more in 100 days than I had in the previous several years.".

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Now and then, over the years, a government agency or NGO issues a report that is startlingly insightful and useful. The study grew out of the recognition that, in a developing nation, cultivating a thriving private sector is fundamental to sustainable economic growth—and that the world already knows a lot about how to do this.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

One large company, Dow, is now tackling this issue, working with the environmental NGO The Nature Conservancy (TNC) to try and make the business logic clearer. It will be fun to watch how Dow navigates this tricky path — while developing the tools for other businesses to follow in their footsteps.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Across the board we see the top executives of some of the world's largest organizations talking about, taking action on, and defining their success in terms of things that have conventionally been the realm of political leaders and NGO activists. The change has not gone unremarked by management's leading thinkers.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

And Bill Gates announced he was shifting his priorities from software development to social impact by moving full time to his foundation. That year, two global headlines raised the profile of social enterprise: Mohammed Yunus and the Grameen Bank won the Nobel Peace prize. In the broader U.S. Lead collaborations, not just organizations.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

You can run the largest NGO on the planet, and if you're being chicken-s**t, then you've squandered the powerful position you've been given. The refrigerated boxcar developed by Gustavus Swift for his meat-packing company, which coincidentally significantly reduced food-borne illness. What we should be asking is who people are being.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

adults were at risk of developing type 2 diabetes in 2015. At the same time, some 1,000 nonprofits and community-based organizations were offering a drug-free solution to help avoid developing diabetes, but they weren’t sufficiently publicizing it or engaging users to sell the service. Consider that 86 million U.S. A team of U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2013

In a knee-jerk reaction some firms have decided to just give up and exit the country altogether — a move that clearly does not serve the interest of the workers and which pulls valuable resources from developing economies.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Furthermore, this allows the for-profit entity to develop and focus its competencies to sell and distribute products, as well as to conduct research and development. While our primary focus is in India, Embrace is doing pilot projects with NGO partners in 10 countries, and we hope to further scale this year.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2013

To be sure, many international water agencies have left developing countries but those exits tend to reflect a loss of funding or end of a contract — or sometimes a convenient belief that a community water challenge has been solved by simply installing a water system and providing basic community management training.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2013

To address this, Cape Town-based NGO mothers2mothers employs and trains HIV-positive mothers as "Mentor Mothers" who work alongside nurses and doctors in clinics, providing psychosocial support to pregnant women and new mothers living with HIV. Thirty-five percent of these infections occur in South Africa and Nigeria alone.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2013

Here in the Guardian , two business professors offer a practical solution to all three problems using developing nations’ supply chains. When disaster strikes, the NGO would set up pop-up warehouses in those locations to channel relief directly from the manufacturers to the myriad micro sites. — for temporary warehouse sites.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2018

The outcome is delivered on the machine screen with a printout, providing confidence of analysis and further actions which may include prescriptions at participating pharmacies, or escalation for medical attention with NGO doctors who supply anonymous medical treatments. The creators are targeting refugee camps in Europe.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

As Steve Davis, former lead in McKinsey's Social Innovation practice and president of the global health NGO, Path, has said: "The best social innovations are not necessarily widely adopted. They developed a system to insert these messages into normal data traffic and measure the response through South Africa's National AIDS Helpline.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

While much has already been written about this challenge in the developed world, there are also some important lessons to be learned from the Bottom of the Pyramid (BoP). Decades of hit-or-miss advice from government, companies, and NGO's has reinforced farmers' already skeptical view of new solutions.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2013

Without adequate financing, ministries of health and even private hospitals in developing countries often don''t have the resources needed to purchase diagnostic equipment, train workers, and ensure access to appropriate treatment. Resistant forms continue to thrive, and increased travel makes the global threat very real.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

They are developing horizontally, not vertically, with vast areas of low sprawl reaching out for miles from Sao Paolo, Lagos, New Delhi, Guangzhou, Jakarta, and many others. As I travel to urban development conferences, I often hear people bemoan an infrastructure funding gap, but the hard truth is there is no funding gap.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Tactics include, for example, labeling claims and how to be clear about what standards we might want to develop, and also about disclosure, when he mentions materiality. HBR: The idea of partnering with NGOs came up in many of the interviews. We need tools to assess progress for external stakeholders, consumers, and managers.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2016

” In less mature economies and fragile regions of the world, entrepreneurs are just as, if not more, critical to livelihoods and development. Among the initial findings : more effective programs emphasize communication skills, networking, and organizational structure over developing finance and accounting skills.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

billion people — over half of the developing world's population — lack access to basic sanitation. To tackle threats to the future health and wellbeing of people in need, businesses must partner with governments and NGOs, lending their skills, resources, and reach. Unilever believes these are basic human rights.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2015

The collaboration, which the NGO Forum for the Future is managing, has high aspirations. Anytime the giants of an industry really start competing and collaborating on sustainability, it’s a very good development.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2015

All of us — researchers, policymakers, governments, social entrepreneurs, nonprofit development groups, microfinance institutions, corporations, and philanthropists — have a role to play in bringing them into the widening zone of prosperity. If we’re to end poverty, we can’t ignore them. 5% of GDP over six years.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

FERIDUN AKGÜNGÖR. ” Many sectors are crowded in developed markets, but wide open at the frontiers. Premise and Asoko grow not only because they are in new markets, but because they’re developing a new model to succeed there. For our family, it’s the homecoming routine.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2015

For these reasons, we need to look beyond the current horizon of those who already have diabetes and get a firmer grip on the even greater proportion of the population — nearly 2 billion people — who are at risk of developing the condition. Make health a priority in urban planning.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2016

feridun akgüngör. Understand that mindfulness is not just a sedentary practice; mindfulness is about developing a sharp, clear mind. You probably know the feeling all too well: You arrive at the office with a clear plan for the day and then, in what feels like just a moment, you find yourself on your way back home.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Started by the NGO Ceres, as part of its Business for Innovative Climate & Energy Policy (BICEP) initiative, the Climate Declaration is a broad statement of intent that acting on climate will be good for our economy and society. What Companies Are Doing.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

FERIDUN AKGÜNGÖR. When you’re trying to develop new customer relations in China, you will be irritable and more easily frustrated. And if you have to cross time zones, it can wreak havoc on the circadian process that regulates sleep, leaving you feeling tired and groggy just when you need to be your most productive.

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