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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. Motivation. Addressing child survival is no small undertaking.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Authority on new technology and communication. 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. Claire Diaz-Ortiz – Technology innovator and speaker.

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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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The Largest Risk (and Opportunity) Investors Are Ignoring

Harvard Business Review

Journalist Justin Gillis wrote about the risk of “severe economic disruption” and “wildly expensive” solutions — ones that may not even exist — if we don’t leverage existing technologies to shift the global economy away from carbon over the next 15 years. Economy Finance Sustainability' Talk of potential risk to humanity is not new.

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

Harvard Business Review

This sustained and sophisticated software scam suggests truly pathological levels of managerial desperation and contempt: desperation around a failed promise of clean diesel technology and unsubtle contempt for unsuspecting regulators and customers alike. Precisely how gullible did these wizards of Wolfsburg think people would be?