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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. Which carries greater risk. Real progress however, is more messy and less linear.

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Lessons from Amazonian Culture and Ecology for Talent Management

Mills Scofield

In Ecuador, we’ve developed very strict rules and very high standards for our team and our suppliers, working against the tendency of people to see us as just another NGO that is “here to help” (aka doesn’t take our work seriously).

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

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund. A leading thinker on strategy and breakthrough innovation. Asheesh Advani – President and CEO, Junior Achievement Worldwide – the largest NGO dedicated to teaching young people about entrepreneurship and financial literacy. Leading innovator in HR for over 25 years.

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How Social Entrepreneurs Can Have the Most Impact

Harvard Business Review

Or consider Kwabena Darko of Ghana, who helped found that country’s microfinance sector by forging a collaboration between global NGO Opportunity International , his national startup Sinapi Aba , and a myriad of village- and town-based trust groups. Amplify the voices of the constituents you seek to serve. Leadership Social enterprise'

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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.

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Accelerating Customer Adoption at the Bottom of the Pyramid

Harvard Business Review

They engage trusted, local influencers to build credibility. But beyond product and technology innovations, more widespread adoption can only happen if the behavior of individual farms changes in a fundamental way. Not surprisingly, some patterns emerge from among the most effective organizations.