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Lessons from Amazonian Culture and Ecology for Talent Management

Mills Scofield

I studied indigenous Amazonian languages and Ethnobotany in college and managed to avoid taking any math, science or business courses (yes, I went to Brown University). My business partner, Dan MacCombie, studied Marine Biology, so he was equally inexperienced in the art of management (unless we decided to employ invertebrates).

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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. For me, this is a positive development. Just ask my staff.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. Called ‘The Academy Awards of Leadership’ by the Economist, Thinkers50 is the world’s most reliable resource for identifying, ranking and sharing the leading management ideas of our age. Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund.

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Top Leaders of 2010 | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

I spent some time talking with Peter Anderson, the manager of the Mologne House. Peter has been the manager at Mologne since it opened 14 years ago. When he told me how long he had been working there, I noted that he had been in a position to see a lot of history come through the doors. but you’ll not find that here.

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Meet Your New R&D Team: Social Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

The smartest minds in social innovation are increasingly committed to engaging with the private sector to make significant changes in areas like health, education, and poverty. What happens when you reverse that model and place these investments at the front-end of your corporate innovation strategy? The Innovation Continuum.

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Is Your Economy Built on the World's Best Knowledge?

Harvard Business Review

Now and then, over the years, a government agency or NGO issues a report that is startlingly insightful and useful. You might well be surprised at both the mass of empirical data they gather and, on occasion, the innovativeness of a study's conception and underlying ideas. Department of Commerce , or the United Nations.

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How to Quantify Sustainability’s Impact on Your Bottom Line

Harvard Business Review

For slaughterhouses and retailers (Brazilian operations), we also projected positive benefits: $20 million to $120 million (0.01% to 0.1% These and other benefits translate into better cost management, agricultural innovation, and increased land productivity and quality. of revenues).