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Innovation, Quality & Entrepreneurship at Akshaya Patra

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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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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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Does Change Happen to You or with You?

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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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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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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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The Buzz on Green Business in China

Harvard Business Review

I visited Beijing last week, speaking to a group of corporate executives assembled by a major NGO to work on climate change issues. The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. This last article is the one that really grabbed my attention.

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Success in Rio? That's For Us to Decide

Harvard Business Review

Few companies attended the original Earth Summit, and examples of company-NGO collaboration were few and far between. But when it comes to leadership, we are living in a G-Everybody world. The Cold War had just ended, and BRICS were used to build houses, not the world's most dynamic economies. But the old models are no longer relevant.