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
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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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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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May 2015
Observations on a design oriented workshop
This week I helped facilitate the work of a diverse group exploring what resources could be created for people with disabilities, whatever their disability might be and wherever they might [...]
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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 [...]
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Feb 2015
Celebrating an Anniversary
Time flies and already I have finished five years of blogging. To celebrate I spent some time reviewing those 85+ posts, adding other ideas that came to mind from that [...]
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Jul 2014
Inspirational People and Inspirational Teams
I wrote a blog post a few years ago on what I believe makes an inspirational person. Groups of people working together in concert can also make inspirational teams. A [...]
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Apr 2014
Scaling for Impact by Scaling Deep
I’ve written about scale-up (scaling) many times before, as scale-up or under another ‘label’ for the scaling concept – international outreach. Working with a number of groups involved in various [...]