CEO Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

An outstanding book about a marine who started an NGO in one of the worst slums in Africa. This book is a bit like " Its all about Leadership " that I blogged about on the Canrock Ventures blog. And as leisure reading, I read " It Happened on the way to War ". It is a page turner.

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CO2

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

When you build a successful company, department, NGO, or team, you build upon successes. What can Darwin teach you about organizational life? It’s tricky to reproduce success, however, because many decisions were both context- and time-bound.

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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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Joseph Lalonde

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

You will be amazed at what your team can do: Tikka battled against an evil Elf, Tien (Veronica Ngo), who was hell-bent on raising the Dark Lord. No amount of affirmation from others will make you a better leader. Know who you are as a leader. Stand firm in your belief of who you are. During their battle, Nick was tossed into a giant pit.

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Mills Scofield

APRIL 15, 2013

In Ecuador, we’ve developed very strict rules and very high standards for our team and our suppliers, working against the tendency of people to see us as just another NGO that is “here to help” (aka doesn’t take our work seriously).

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

The vision for Ethical Coach is to support 64,000 NGO, non-profit and children’s charity leaders each year in accessing coaching. Ethical Coach will host 400 NGO leaders in workshops and deliver coaching skills through our high level international volunteer coaches. The first is the Ethical Coach program.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2010

She has only been finished her Residency in anesthesia for little over a year and is coordinating international WHO’s and the efforts of the likes of the Clinton Foundation, The UN and othe NGO’s. Sounds like a lifetime of accomplishments in leadership? She’s 37.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 30, 2024

Work with the NGO to reform the affected after the disaster has passed. Help create awareness in the locals. You can also train your employees to work as volunteers. Provide logistical support. Donate food, water, medicine, and other relief based on the disaster. Establishing yourself as a socially responsible company isn’t too difficult.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 7, 2019

“If you are a conservation NGO or government agency conducting outreach, microtargeting can dramatically increase your impact or cut your outreach budget,” the authors say. When the model was tested, it revealed that those landowners identified as being good targets were indeed more likely to support the project.

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CO2

OCTOBER 24, 2013

We received a lot of press, and I was frequently asked to join bank, for profit, and NGO boards. My business grew at over 50% a year every year for 12 straight years and became one of the 5,000 largest employers in the United States. In the world of entrepreneurs, I had rock-star status. Today, rather than being a rock star, I coach them.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

This involves mobilizing customers, rethinking NGO partnerships to focus on systemic change, pressuring peers and trade groups, and engaging in public climate lobbying. To truly address climate change, businesses must go beyond individual sustainability efforts and engage in movement-building and political action.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

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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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

I visited Beijing last week, speaking to a group of corporate executives assembled by a major NGO to work on climate change issues. However, the company execs and NGO leaders in Beijing tell me that sustainability is still a new pursuit for Chinese companies. It's another thing to see the green focus up close.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2013

They need to come to grips with the unintended consequences of starving NGOs of the resources needed to invest in leadership, management, program evaluation, and integrated systems. And NGO leaders need to stop playing the low-overhead-is-good game and lead the charge for adequate general operating support.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2010

If you have the funds, or your company supports such programs, volunteer (with the help of an NGO) to live in a rural village for a week or allow your people to take mini-sabbaticals or secondments with NGOs to work on development projects. Billions of poor and underprivileged people constitute the largest untapped market in the world.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

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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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2012

Few companies attended the original Earth Summit, and examples of company-NGO collaboration were few and far between. The Cold War had just ended, and BRICS were used to build houses, not the world's most dynamic economies.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

As a recent report on the subject from the NGO Ceres said, “According to the IEA, more than two-thirds of the world’s proven reserves of fossil fuels will be unusable prior to 2050 if necessary carbon regulations are enacted [emphasis added].”. The growing divestment movement, led by the NGO 350.org The Stick: Regulation .

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2012

As part of an effort to increase education in Southern Sudan, a team of villagers with help from an NGO took on the challenge of increasing school attendance by 30% in 100 days.The villagers were so motivated to achieve this goal, that they eventually made their own bricks to construct a new building.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2012

Twenty years ago, a citizen might not know the name of a Fortune 500 CEO or NGO director, but they knew the reputation of the institution—and made an assumption that the person chosen to lead it must personify its good qualities. The reflected glory of their institutions.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2011

A well-crafted mission statement allows an NGO to operate with focus and discipline. In a nonprofit a clear and effective strategy facilitates attraction of funds and provides the ability to take smart action. An effective strategy provides competitive advantage. It provides consistency in decision making over both time and geography.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2011

Continues Parag: The best place to view what model of diplomacy lies before us in the New Middle Ages is the Swiss enclave of Davos, where each January the planet's most influential heads of state, CEOs, mayors, religious leaders, NGO heads, university presidents, celebrities and artists flock for the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

You can run the largest NGO on the planet, and if you're being chicken-s**t, then you've squandered the powerful position you've been given. What we should be asking is who people are being. Are you being courageous? Are you being authentic? Unstoppable? Because that's what really makes a difference.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

One large company, Dow, is now tackling this issue, working with the environmental NGO The Nature Conservancy (TNC) to try and make the business logic clearer. For example, how should companies handle the overuse of natural resources and the reduction in the planet's " biodiversity " (that is, the abundant variation in plant and animal life)?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2014

The day before the stark story in the Times appeared, I attended a related conference, the Investor Summit on Climate Risk, held at the UN and run by the NGO Ceres. However, now the risk we’re talking about is financial, which, along with the enormous economic upside of taking action, may finally get the investment community moving.

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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. However, because of several odd factors (for example: they can't be commercially advertised) these reports often don't come to the attention of many who might actually have some use for their information.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

Dara Dotz is removing obstacles to rapid recovery in humanitarian disasters with her NGO, Field Ready. Having a bird’s eye view (or in this case, a sidekick’s view) gives you the advantage of seeing roadblocks or challenges, while putting team members in the superhero role makes them agents to solve their own problems.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

Or consider Kwabena Darko of Ghana, who helped found that country’s microfinance sector by forging a collaboration between global NGO Opportunity International , his national startup Sinapi Aba , and a myriad of village- and town-based trust groups. Amplify the voices of the constituents you seek to serve.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2013

Such an intermediary organization (in this case probably an NGO) would collect the extra 3.3%, build relationships with buyers and sellers and would use the trust of its relationships to have the confidence to certify that clothing was produced according to proper standards.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2013

The Climate Declaration, created by the NGO Ceres as part of its BICEP advocacy group , makes a simple case for action: Taking on climate change will save money, improve efficiency, and drive innovation, all of which will keep America competitive internationally.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

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. A team of U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

While our primary focus is in India, Embrace is doing pilot projects with NGO partners in 10 countries, and we hope to further scale this year. The for-profit arm, Embrace Innovations, would raise money from venture capitalists — though our first screening criteria would be investors who were aligned with our social mission.

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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. The change has not gone unremarked by management's leading thinkers.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2013

When disaster strikes, the NGO would set up pop-up warehouses in those locations to channel relief directly from the manufacturers to the myriad micro sites. More goods get where they need to go and micro sellers remain in business, ready to resume normal operations when the flood is over and the NGOs fold up their tents.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2013

To address this, Cape Town-based NGO mothers2mothers employs and trains HIV-positive mothers as "Mentor Mothers" who work alongside nurses and doctors in clinics, providing psychosocial support to pregnant women and new mothers living with HIV. Thirty-five percent of these infections occur in South Africa and Nigeria alone.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2018

The outcome is delivered on the machine screen with a printout, providing confidence of analysis and further actions which may include prescriptions at participating pharmacies, or escalation for medical attention with NGO doctors who supply anonymous medical treatments.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2013

Every international NGO (INGO) and aid agency involved in water supply has a mission statement along the lines of "we envision a world where no one dies of a water-related disease." The magnitude of that goal can make the right time to exit seem like "never." That is particularly true in the water sector.

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