Global-Local Linkages
Last week I facilitated a roundtable on the topic of global-local linkages: how global trends are affecting our local work, and how we are learning to incorporate global perspectives better [...]
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May 2016
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Apr 2016
Operating effective organizations
Last week I was one of a number of multinational presenters at the first inaugural Middle East Association Congress. The event brought together a thoughtful and inquisitive group that explored [...]
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Mar 2016
Networking and Global Growth – Part #3
This is the third in a series of posts on how new approaches to networking are affecting the ways in which organizations grow their global footprint and impact. This post [...]
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Feb 2016
Networking and Global Impact – Part #2
This is the second part of a series on how our changing approaches to networking are affecting how organizations grow globally. The first part of the series, providing the background [...]
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Feb 2016
Networking and global impact
How are our changing ways of networking changing the way NGOs develop and expand globally? When I was writing about organizations increasing their international engagement for the book Going Global [...]
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Jan 2016
What Comes Down from the Mountain? (The World Economic Forum 2016)
This week the World Economic Forum is meeting in the Swiss town of Davos. Many of us aren’t aware of this or if we are, don’t think anything will come [...]
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Jan 2016
Transitioning to a new year
The ends and beginnings of calendar years are always good times for some reflection on what’s just past and looking forward to the new year. Due to a heavy travel [...]
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Nov 2015
DATA: #datarevolution #BigData #DataShift – what’s it all about?
As my work covers many different subject areas and communities, I spend a fair amount of time following trends in these different areas and how they impact my central focus [...]
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Jul 2015
2015 – A Year of Transition Gains Momentum
As has been obvious to those who follow the international policy arena and/or have seen all of the #post2015 hashtags, 2015 was going to be a year of transition in [...]
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Apr 2015
Exploring the Social Lab Framework
About a year ago I discovered the work of Zaid Hassan around Social Labs through social media and a new book he wrote The Social Labs Revolution about designing and [...]