Test It!
A Project to Test Operational Changes to Civil Society Organizations A couple of years ago, a small group started a global conversation around the dramatic operational changes that will be [...]
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Jul 2016
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May 2016
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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Apr 2016
The Practice of Cultural Sensitivity
I have had a number of interactions recently that have me thinking about how the appreciation of and sensitivity to other cultures, the basis for effective partnerships, is a [...]
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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
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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Aug 2015
A Multi-Year Program Review
Although the key to significant change is often in the lessons of long-term implementation, we don’t see these multi-year studies as often as would be useful. Recently the Helping Babies [...]
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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 [...]