Responding to the lack of adequate, affordable childcare solutions after school hours, Chantal Mainguené has created the first integrated, scalable afterschool program in France. By mobilizing latent resources in the community, Chantal is demonstrating how it is possible to offer a high-quality...
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Victoria Shocrón is working, in a non-confrontational way, to integrate young people with disabilities into Argentine society and to educate the Argentine public about people with disabilities. In pursuing those twin goals, she has developed a set of programs, including agreements with progressive...
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Empathy, Not Bureaucracy, Makes Organizations Great -- Leadership Lessons from Anand Mahindra
Anand Mahindra, CEO of Mahindra Group, an Indian multinational conglomerate with a presence in over 100 countries, sat down with Ashoka entrepreneur Ashwin Naik to share his journey, influences and ideas on the central role empathy must play if we want to be great business leaders in today’s world....
Peace, chemistry, literature. Leadership?
Yesterday the Sunday Washington Post had a thought-provoking piece that posted the question: “If there were a Nobel Prize for leadership, what would the criteria be and whom would you nominate?” We were naturally thrilled by the contribution from Howard Gardner, Hobbs Professor of Cognition and...
Why Social Impact Beats a Bonus
According to the Gallup management journal , an astounding 73% of American workers are disengaged with their work. They're either "checked out," just sleepwalking through their work day, or worse, actively undermining the company and costing hundreds of billions each year. Any corporation that can...
For the past fifteen years, André Dupon has pioneered an alternative to the state-subsidized job training programs as a way to cope with France's deep-seated structural unemployment. By creating a series of hybrid value partnerships between business and social enterprises that have a strong job...
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Alejandro Marius
Providing educational opportunities for young people and women in Venezuela.
Building a Team with Super-Skills and Complementarity
Who you choose to be on your team will define your success in life, in your work, in your relationships. Most of us tend to pick a team of people (or join a team) with similar backgrounds, or who we like working with, or who have similar strengths. While there is nothing wrong with that, surrounding...
How Fluid Teams Create Good Business
As the world becomes increasingly interconnected and the rate of change accelerates, new organizational models are fundamental to an organization’s ability to remain competitive and relevant. When organizations empower fluid and open teams with distributed accountability and decision-making, the...
Since the early 1980s Danielle Desguees has promoted a culture of entrepreneurship in France; an economy historically dominated by large firms and state enterprises. Through public outreach, programs in schools and universities, and advisory services provided through a nationwide network of...
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