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065: Influence 3.0: Upgrade from Leadership to Impact

Engaging Leader

Market conditions changed more quickly, and became more complex and harder to predict. Market conditions changed more quickly, and became more complex and harder to predict. Management Influence 2.0: In the early 90s, the Iron Curtain fell. More people started using the Internet, and then the Web. The post 065: Influence 3.0:

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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). We’ve built our entire supply chain from the ground up and are the first to introduce guayusa to international markets. Go buy some Runa Tea, enjoy, and learn.

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The Buzz on Green Business in China

Harvard Business Review

However, the company execs and NGO leaders in Beijing tell me that sustainability is still a new pursuit for Chinese companies. Comments The Buzz on Green Business in China I visited Beijing last week, speaking to a group of corporate executives assembled by a major NGO to work on climate change issues.

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To Profit from Doing Good, Start Small

Harvard Business Review

Leaders of these companies now believe that "doing good" can be a powerful strategy for growing markets, stimulating innovation, motivating employees, tapping into new talent pools, and actually reducing costs. Billions of poor and underprivileged people constitute the largest untapped market in the world. Educate your team.

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Change the World Without Losing Yourself

Harvard Business Review

Most major universities now have nonprofit management programs that didn't exist ten years ago. And so a young girl, whose calling — and whose value to the world — may really be to dance, or to build an industry, is hypnotized into becoming the fundraising director for an NGO.

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Dow Asks, What's the Business Case for Protecting Nature?

Harvard Business Review

Companies are increasingly seeing the obvious benefits of slashing energy use, and beginning to include in their calculations the considerable risk reduction from managing water well or limiting the use of toxic chemicals. Risk reduction: Managing your nature-sourced supply chain well can help avoid headaches and possible litigation.

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Global NGOs Spend More on Accounting Than Multinationals

Harvard Business Review

But the data, gathered in our new study " Stop Starving Scale " and compared against benchmarks from APQC (American Productivity & Quality Center), hint at a little-known story: most global NGOs today struggle to master the complexities of managing efficient, integrated operations in large part due to restrictions placed on them by funders.