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Expertise Matters!

Nathan Magnuson

One day the president of the other NGO expressed a need for a new accountant and I casually suggested his consider the accountant from the first NGO. I didn’t want to be like the woman in the first NGO: a friendly and enthusiastic person who couldn’t be taken seriously as a professional. Learn from the True Experts.

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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. Delegation. Addressing child survival is no small undertaking.

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Top Leaders of 2010 | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Covey has garnered the loyalty and love of her students, something that she still evokes in my daughters even though they have long since left her classroom. link] Scott Eblin Earlier this year, I spent an amazing afternoon with the wounded warriors at the Mologne House which is the long term lodging facility at Walter Reed Army Hospital.

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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. However, now the risk we’re talking about is financial, which, along with the enormous economic upside of taking action, may finally get the investment community moving.

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If You're Out to Change the World, How Do You Know When to Move On?

Harvard Business Review

But here the community is borrowing a term from traditional venture capitalists, who know that a big part of maximizing returns is having a plan for when and how to end one''s involvement in a venture and invest resources elsewhere. Social enterprises, of course, are organizations designed primarily to yield social versus financial value.

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The Most Overused Negotiating Tactic Is Threatening to Walk Away

Harvard Business Review

Your relative power in a negotiation is your capacity to use resources to influence another’s circumstances ; and a BATNA’s role in that regard can range anywhere from significant to non-existent. How long have they been working for this organization? How long has it been in business?