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Does Change Happen to You or with You?

CO2

When you build a successful company, department, NGO, or team, you build upon successes. Think about being the engineer who came up with the zero-emissions car before our culture was ready for it. What can Darwin teach you about organizational life? You might have failed miserably.

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Lessons from Amazonian Culture and Ecology for Talent Management

Mills Scofield

He was an experienced forestry engineer who had managed a number of different cacao and coffee projects in the region. This analogy for me is the most concrete rationale for the true value of diversity I’ve encountered. Our first hire in Ecuador was a great man named Fausto. We met Fausto through a friend of a friend of a friend.

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To Come Up with a Good Idea, Start by Imagining the Worst Idea Possible

Harvard Business Review

Dara Dotz is removing obstacles to rapid recovery in humanitarian disasters with her NGO, Field Ready. Suddenly the victim is the superhero and the designers and engineers are the sidekick, collaborating together to find the best solutions. To help disaster victims realize their own recovery, Field Ready teams begin by listening.

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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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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. Still others are from nonprofit leaders frustrated by a system that works against the dreams that brought them into the sector in the first place.

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The Obligatory Pre-Davos Post!

Harvard Business Review

Continues Parag: The best place to view what model of diplomacy lies before us in the New Middle Ages is the Swiss enclave of Davos, where each January the planet's most influential heads of state, CEOs, mayors, religious leaders, NGO heads, university presidents, celebrities and artists flock for the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum.

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What the Nonprofit Sector Needs to Reach Its Full Potential

Harvard Business Review

It has InsideNGO, which works to improve the operational and management capacity of organizations in the global NGO community. It has the National Council of Nonprofits, a network of groups across the nation which does advocacy work and helps organizations learn from one another to achieve greater collective impact.