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Leading For Good

Great Leadership By Dan

My friends were all doing sexier things like technology, communications, or financial services.” 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. We need leaders like you.’

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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. For me, this is a positive development. Motivation. Just ask my staff.

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How New Technologies Could Transform Africa’s Health Care System

Harvard Business Review

Across industrial sectors, from healthcare to energy, from construction to retail, engineers are creating new technologies with potentially disruptive implications for the current architectural order of the global economy. One of the technologies, an “ AI doctor ”, shows great promise for the future of healthcare in Africa.

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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. The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. In the U.S.

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The Buzz on Green Business in China

Harvard Business Review

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 ". " VW: Tooling up for sustainability ". Batteries still drag 'green vehicle' effort ".

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Top Leaders of 2010 | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

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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Accelerating Customer Adoption at the Bottom of the Pyramid

Harvard Business Review

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). This technology has been shown to save water and labor, and to increase yield in a variety of crops. Groundbreaking solutions often never reach scale.