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Innovation, Quality & Entrepreneurship at Akshaya Patra

QAspire

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Innovation, Quality & Entrepreneurship at Akshaya Patra Akshaya Patra Foundation in India is a shining example of how social entrepreneurship combined with power of innovation can make a HUGE difference. Akshaya Patra is an Indian NGO that provides mid day meals to about 1.2

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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. ” The innovators and adapters may get tired of hearing “No” and either stop proposing ideas or leave the organization. What can Darwin teach you about organizational life?

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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. Real progress however, is more messy and less linear.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Jim Kim (President of the World Bank), Peter Drucker (founder of modern management), Paul Hersey (noted author, teacher, and personal mentor of mine), and Warren Bennis (one of the world’s greatest leadership thinkers of his time). Has been recognized as the World’s #1 Leadership Thinker. Co-founder Partners in Health.

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Lessons from Amazonian Culture and Ecology for Talent Management

Mills Scofield

Fausto helped us grow from nothing into a team of 15 people and about 500 farmers, at which point Fausto’s leadership started to falter. What I learned in working with Fausto was that Entrepreneurship, Management, and Leadership are three very different things that often get lumped together.

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Top Leaders of 2010 | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

who serve as inspiration to us all by the daily difference their leadership makes in our lives. You can nominate your unsung hero by leaving a comment explaning how their example of leadership touches the lives of others. but you’ll not find that here. but you’ll not find that here. but you’ll not find that here. I appreciate it.

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The Buzz on Green Business in China

Harvard Business Review

The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. I wrote a couple of months ago about Chinas leadership in the clean tech race , but at the macro level. The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad.

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