Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 26, 2014

We had a tiny transportation team – just a few people. We were by far the first environmental NGO to move. “I concluded I could be successful by aggressively sharing credit with others on any success I had. And I discovered there was no penalty for sharing credit.” In fact, the rewards were substantial. “We Then we grew.

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Transportation NGO Real Estate CEO 238

Mills Scofield

APRIL 15, 2013

We knew early on that building a strong team and bringing in key leaders would be essential for our growth. Thinking about how this might relate to our organization, we saw that a team of Tylers and Dans would be tremendously weak. The diversity of species naturally cycles nutrients, protects the soil, and manages insect populations.

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Talent Management Management Supply Chain NGO 167

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

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.

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NGO Short-term Delegation Finance 175

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2010

John Rego was a Ranger Team Leader in Iraq. Later, she was brought on as a staff member to help coordinate volunteer medical teams to help with basic medical needs that arose in the villages and tent camps, ie malnutrition, minor illnesses, heat exhaustion, etc. I can think of two in particular. In her own words, she was pushing paper.

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Blog Covey Learning-by-Doing Video 304

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

He calls it “gypsy chefs,” a team that roams. What are the obstacles standing in the way of your team? Dara Dotz is removing obstacles to rapid recovery in humanitarian disasters with her NGO, Field Ready. To help disaster victims realize their own recovery, Field Ready teams begin by listening.

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Supply Chain NGO CTO Learning-by-Doing 14

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Asheesh Advani – President and CEO, Junior Achievement Worldwide – the largest NGO dedicated to teaching young people about entrepreneurship and financial literacy. Rod MacKenzie – Executive Vice President, Chief Development Officer for Pfizer, member of Pfizer’s Executive Leadership Team. Former Chief Economist – Gates Foundation.

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Bring your team together to identify ways that you can operate with greater sustainability and then set stretch targets. On a more modest scale, encourage your team members to do volunteer work in local communities; or have your team "adopt" specific development projects, such as those with Global Giving. Educate your team.

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Prahalad NGO Long-term Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

As Steve Davis, former lead in McKinsey's Social Innovation practice and president of the global health NGO, Path, has said: "The best social innovations are not necessarily widely adopted.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2012

For example: In order to achieve seemingly impossible growth targets, an adhesives materials company challenged dozens of divisional teams to each implement one "growth idea" that would generate new revenue in 100 days. One team, for instance, revised a commercial taping product for home use and partnered with Home Depot to sell it.

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Goal Short-term NGO Long-term 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2014

I have studied the process and outcomes of teaming for many years; the fight against Ebola is one of the most vivid (and terrifying) examples of teaming under pressure I’ve witnessed. And so organizations around the world have to team up to create new strategies to defeat an invisible enemy. Teaming at the CDC.

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Management Health Care NGO Crisis Management 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

’” Office “housework” is often invisible and so its value to a team is under-appreciated. When Patria, a program leader in an NGO, was asked by her director to help a colleague whose team was having trouble managing its workload, she agreed. Fletcher, “But when a man says no, he faces no backlash.

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NGO COO Planning Career 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Now and then, over the years, a government agency or NGO issues a report that is startlingly insightful and useful. This team identified objectively measureable indicators of networking activity and combined them into a Connectedness Index. If you doubt this, take a look at the recent publications list of the World Bank , the U.S.

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NGO Bottom-up Report GDP 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

A team of U.S. Only when BRAC, a Bangladesh NGO, recruited and deployed thousands of paid workers to teach villagers how to make it out of ingredients in even the humblest of homes did adoption take off, in the early 1980s. Organizations need to entice people to use that service.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2016

It has InsideNGO, which works to improve the operational and management capacity of organizations in the global NGO community. The Kansas City Royals’ 2015 team payroll was over $110 million. It has the evaluating agencies that do their best to give the public information on various charities.

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Budgeting NGO Diversity Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

Bill Drayton, founder and CEO of Ashoka, points to the necessary skill of becoming a leader of teams of teams.Think about the pace of new cancer therapies — and how research center directors lead knowledge sharing between labs across continents and oceans.

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Entrepreneur Microfinance NGO Mission Statement 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2013

Our teams work in partnership to provide technical assistance and training to expand lab workers'' skills, secure pricing agreements to increase access to our products, and design medical technologies appropriate for resource-limited settings. We then, in turn, trained local lab workers, who then trained others. Make a multi-year commitment.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

FERIDUN AKGÜNGÖR. You and Your Team. When business is conducted globally, we often have to travel long distances to launch projects, meet with partners, negotiate deals, address crises, manage customer relations, and engage in a variety of other activities on the behalf of our organizations. Business Travel.

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Travel NGO Energy Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2015

I’ve been in contact with Heiny and her team at Target over the last year about the program she helped build to drive product innovation and more sales. The collaboration, which the NGO Forum for the Future is managing, has high aspirations. So why are sustainable products surging now?

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Productivity Products Chemicals Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

To tackle threats to the future health and wellbeing of people in need, businesses must partner with governments and NGOs, lending their skills, resources, and reach. We have found that choosing the right partner allows us to amplify our message and impact.

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NGO Franchising Project Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

Instead of sending doctors back to school, the Swedish authorities have them join medical teams in hospitals where their competences can be observed and they can be familiarized with local medical procedures. This is not to say that civil servants and NGO volunteers are not well meaning.

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Long-term Planning NGO Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

Decades of hit-or-miss advice from government, companies, and NGO's has reinforced farmers' already skeptical view of new solutions. Local farmer meetings are a great platform for our team to introduce the product to farmers and to respond to their questions.

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Early Adopters Payback Period NGO Influence 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Across the board we see the top executives of some of the world's largest organizations talking about, taking action on, and defining their success in terms of things that have conventionally been the realm of political leaders and NGO activists. And not just me, our whole leadership team.

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Globalization NGO Leadership Development Politics 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Since 2010 the Brazilian government, slaughterhouses, retailers, and NGOs have made a concerted effort to reduce deforestation, with public authorities responsible for satellite monitoring of the rain forest. Measuring Sustainability’s Impact Across the Value Chain.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

When I was a graduate student at Stanford University in 2007, a team of students and I first conceptualized the Embrace Infant Warmer — a low cost way to regulate the temperature of vulnerable newborns, without the need for constant electricity, and at a fraction of the cost of existing solutions.

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NGO Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2015

You and Your Team. If the burned out Wall Street lawyer and the dissatisfied NGO activist were to change seats, perhaps neither would end up more content. Since the same individuals are interviewed each year, it’s possible to see if people accurately predicted their future life satisfaction. Mid-Career Crisis.

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Crisis Career Bottom-up NGO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

The Obama administration issued new standards to double the fuel economy of cars and trucks , and the National Resources Defense Council (an NGO) proposed using the Clean Air Act to reduce emissions from power plants by 25%. Unilever has received over 1,000 ideas and is "pursuing 6 to 7 percent of these with internal teams."

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Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Automated voice calls go to neighbors, the local radio station is activated to send announcements, and the private security company ‘zoned’ to the user send around a response team. Another example of an infrastructure patch that has already gotten attention in the West is BRCK, the spin-off commercial service from renowned NGO Ushahidi.

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