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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. Addressing child survival is no small undertaking. Which carries greater risk.

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Top Leaders of 2010 | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

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. but you’ll not find that here. Sounds like a lifetime of accomplishments in leadership? She’s 37. I Think Not.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Asheesh Advani – President and CEO, Junior Achievement Worldwide – the largest NGO dedicated to teaching young people about entrepreneurship and financial literacy. Darek Lenart – Senior VP HR, Finance MasterCard. One of LinkedIn’s 2017 ‘Top Voices’ among all Influencers. Former CEO, Covestor and CircleLending.

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The Largest Risk (and Opportunity) Investors Are Ignoring

Harvard Business Review

The day before the stark story in the Times appeared, I attended a related conference, the Investor Summit on Climate Risk, held at the UN and run by the NGO Ceres. Economy Finance Sustainability' treasury secretary Robert Rubin, who declared, “climate change is an existential risk.”.

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Is VW’s Fraud the End of Large-Scale Corporate Deception?

Harvard Business Review

An eco-NGO, the International Council on Clean Transportation — not formal regulatory review — effectively uncovered the con. In food, as well as finance, activists will have to marry meaningful analytics to ideology to spark interest and wield influence.