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Lessons from Amazonian Culture and Ecology for Talent Management

Mills Scofield

I studied indigenous Amazonian languages and Ethnobotany in college and managed to avoid taking any math, science or business courses (yes, I went to Brown University). My business partner, Dan MacCombie, studied Marine Biology, so he was equally inexperienced in the art of management (unless we decided to employ invertebrates).

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Time to Review the Reputation of Team Building Activities

HR Digest

Other group team-building activities are done with the intention of building some specific skill in the employees, such as time management or conflict resolution, and as a result, they can take on many shapes. Finding a local NGO or community that you want to work with is the first step to this team-building activity.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

They represent leaders in their own worlds with a diversity of interests that relate to the topic of coaching. Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund. A leading thinker on strategy and breakthrough innovation. 100 COACHES.

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Why Top-Down Management Doesn’t Work in the Fight Against Ebola

Harvard Business Review

Obama reportedly felt the situation called for someone who could set priorities and help government agencies and private sector organizations of all kinds to collaborate and innovate. Top-down management simply will not get the innovation part of the job done. Teaming in NGO s.

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Meet Your New R&D Team: Social Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

The smartest minds in social innovation are increasingly committed to engaging with the private sector to make significant changes in areas like health, education, and poverty. What happens when you reverse that model and place these investments at the front-end of your corporate innovation strategy? The Innovation Continuum.