Category: careerpaths
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Vindication 2009
Dear Michael, Over the weekend our team met with Beth to review her findings and recommendations for the Millennium Village Project in Micheweni District, and we are all confident that we have identified the best possible path forward to fully launch the MVP in Micheweni District. First though, I want to stress that Beth did…
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Going Corporate
Many years ago when I was a budding and impassioned young painter in junior high school art classes, a teacher found me staring morosely at a canvas on which I had just made a giant mistake. “It’s ruined,” I said. He looked at the canvas, unsure which from my young perspective comprised the offending colors…
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Grassroots leaders
Astute change management and communications professionals have long recognized the need to engage social networks in any major change project. Social networks came long before Web 2.0. The best discussion of social networks in the analog world comes from Everett Rogers’ classic book, Diffusion of Innovations. Everett uses concrete examples of change – condom use in…
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Narcissism and social responsibility
I’ve long been an advocate of corporate social responsibility and a believer that the corporation can be an agent for good in the world. Yes the goal of for-profit organizations is to make money and not to give money or time away. But reputation matters. According to BusinessWeek (July 9, 2007) “Reputation is a big…
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A Visit to Wete
Pemba. We’re sitting in the one air-conditioned office at the Ministry of Finance in Chake Chake, the office reserved for the Officer in Charge. We have an appointment to meet Maua, the acting officer in charge, who is handling Bakari’s responsibility while he’s in the UK getting an advanced degree. Maua agreed to take us…
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A Birthday Escape in 2009
Today is my birthday – and spur of the moment last night I decided to go to the best resort on the island – Fundu Lagoon. I had had a bit of a trying day. First a run that made me realize I don’t have the drive to train for this year’s marathon. Not here,…
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Pemba 2009
1 July 2009 KLM flight to Amsterdam. I am off. Gone. The trek has started. It would seem so grandiose to say I have begun a hero’s journey, but it feels as if I am on a mythical quest. A transformation from one stage of my life to another. And that everything I ever thought,…