Girl Em(power)ment: Laurel Touby, Leslie Harris and Sheila Krumholz Speak with Changemakers about Women, Tools and Technology
In case you missed the Changemakers.com Twitterview podcasts with Mediabistro founder Laurel Touby, Center for Democracy + Technology CEO Leslie Harris and Center for Responsive Politics Executive Director Sheila Krumholz this week, we've got them posted here on Ashoka.org for your perusal! They are...
The Age of Fast Industries and Ecosystems
People often ask me why I started working with Ashoka and why I have I stayed with Ashoka for the last eight years. I tell the story of how during my late teens and twenties I worked in Vietnam, Indonesia, Myanmar and other parts of the world where I saw extreme poverty. I remember playing with...
Building Cities of Changemakers
When you look at the work of the young and dynamic social entrepreneur Sascha Haselmayer, founder of Citymart, you can observe many different things. Most obviously, you will see a brilliant and rapidly growing open methodology (or approach if you prefer) enabling sharing and efficiency in urban...
Compétition "Co-création Social & Business : collaborer pour plus d'impact"
Organisée par Ashoka, la Fondation du Sommet de Zermatt, la Fondation Guilé, DPD et Boehringer Ingelheim, la compétition "Co-création Social & Business : collaborer pour plus d'impact" avait pour but de donner une caisse de résonnance aux initiatives de co-création lancées, sourcer des projets de co...
Fast Company: Investing in Post-Conflict Startups to Save the World
Last week, Fast Company published an article on the importance of investing in post-conflict zones to kick-start the local economy, foster entrepreneurship, and reduce the chances of a relapse. As the article states: "The global cost of conflicts is $100 billion; dishing charity cash and sleeping...
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...
Pourquoi des équipes fluides sont aujourd’hui nécessaires au succès des organisations
Tandis que le monde devient de plus en plus interconnecté et que le rythme du changement s’accélère, de nouveaux modèles organisationnels sont fondamentaux à la capacité d’une organisation à rester compétitive et pertinente. L’effet de la responsabilité diffuse et du pouvoir de décision partagé au...
In che modo i modelli organizzativi orizzontali e fluidi generano buoni affari
Mentre il mondo diventa sempre più interconnesso e la velocità del cambiamento accelera, per restare competitivi è fondamentale la creazione di nuovi modelli organizzativi. Quando le organizzazioni lavorano in team flessibili e aperti, con responsabilità e processi decisionali distribuiti e...
流動的なチームが、優れたビジネスを生み出す理由
世界がますます相互につながるようになり、変化のペースは加速しています。このような状況において、組織が競争力と存在意義を維持するには、新しい組織モデルが非常に重要となります。流動的でオープンなチームに対して、組織が多くの責任と意思決定権を与えた場合、その効果は2倍になります。すなわち、情熱と目的意識がチームメンバーの間で高まるだけでなく、問題を敏捷かつ迅速に解決できるよう組織が強化されるのです。以前の投稿(Your Team Never Mattered So Much (あなたのチームはさほど重要でなかった))で私たちは、このような組織モデルの一例として、チーム・オブ...