Inspirational People and Inspirational Teams
I wrote a blog post a few years ago on what I believe makes an inspirational person. Groups of people working together in concert can also make inspirational teams. A [...]
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Jul 2014
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Feb 2014
Learn Share Lab on Co-Creation
A small but diverse group from 12 countries and many fields of practice came together recently to explore the concept of co-creation at the Learn Share Lab. The event modeled [...]
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Apr 2013
Creating Effective Partnerships: Ownership and sustainability at the local level
This is a guest post by Meg Mall, International Development Consultant for Goodwill Industries International In my various roles with Goodwill Industries International over the past 10 years, I’ve supported [...]
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Feb 2013
The Boundary of Age
This is a guest post by Kate Otto of Everyday Ambassador. My guest post on the same theme can be found on EA's site here. My name is Kate Otto, [...]
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Jan 2013
Building Bridges
We seem to be in a period where there is a lot of talk (and indeed a fair amount of action) around ‘the need for change’ and ‘doing things differently’. [...]
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Nov 2012
What’s the recipe?
I’ve been reading a lot of things and heard a number of conversations recently that seem to imply that “If you just use this new innovation or tool, or have [...]
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Oct 2012
Blog Action Day: The Power of WE
The theme of this year’s Blog Action Day is “The Power of WE - a celebration of people working together to make a positive difference in the world…” I’ve [...]
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Oct 2012
Building an International Framework – What does it take?
Last week I facilitated a roundtable discussing observations and ‘lessons learned’ from the creation and growth of an international organization I helped steer. I wrote about the creation of the [...]
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Jul 2012
Co-creating a new type of organization
How we conceive of organizations is changing. What we have come to know as NGOs, nonprofits, charities and civil society organizations are being re-envisioned as concepts like social enterprise have [...]
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May 2012
Effective International Expansion and Scale-Up
I have been working for many years on issues surrounding international growth and outreach, and Scaling or Scale up. I have periodically posted different aspects of this work, but I [...]