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Books

Mick wrote the chapter "Developing Leaders in a Global Landscape" in

Leadership, improvisation and rock 'n roll

Leadership, improvisation and rock ‘n roll – from Jimi Hendrix to Nigel Kennedy, via Ronnie [...]

David Logan on Tribal Leadership - from TED

TED is on my mind today, especially as Ingrid and I are about to go to TED Global in Oxford this week. Here’s a talk by David Logan from last year which I think is very interesting. And if you have a moment visit TED.com to see the fascinating comments people made on the talk [...]

Connected - we are social beings first, second, and third

I was with the Change Leaders group in Paris at the weekend – the community of practice we set up after the Masters program we all shared at Oxford & HEC, amazingly now in its seventh year.

Patricia and Jacob ran a session on sustainable innovation – and included the video by Jane McGonigal from [...]

Haiti – a view from Jacqueline Novogratz, of the Acumen Fund

In 1995 my family was in the middle of the Kobe quake (“The Great Hanshin Earthquake”). We were lucky. The quake killed over 6,400 people. We got off very lightly. Experiencing that event first hand was traumatic enough, but we are all now looking at terrible pictures from Port au Prince, and we hear that [...]

“Creating Community” – by Becky Robinson at Mountain State University

A blog post at Mountain State University, from Becky Robinson

“My friend Helen is looking for community.

One evening, she and I discussed the difference between having connected relationships with people and experiencing community. We agreed people want more than just a few close relationships; people are  hungry for true community. Though you can find community many places — [...]

UNDP engages Namibian communities in conversation on HIV/AIDS

On “World AIDS Day“, I just want to commend the work that so many people and organizations do to help on this issue. Here’s a great example of community based action in Nambia from the UNDP. Here’s the article from the UNDP website:

Community conversations have proven [...]

Charter for Compassion

Karen Armstrong won the TED Prize in 2008 – and her idea, the “Charter for Compassion” kicks off in earnest on November 12th. You can find out more about the Charter at http://charterforcompassion.org/.

I am not a religious person, but I cannot but hope that the idea of establishing some form of Universal Truth and [...]

Connected Communities

From the RSA website, Jonathan Rowson’s blog on “Connected Communities” …

David Cameron’s speech at the conservative party conference indicated that the conservative party might be interested in the work of our connected communities project, so I decided to take a closer look.

The RSA is a charity, and strictly non-partisan, but Mathew Taylor [Chief [...]

Tribes

Great talk (from TED again) by Seth Godin on “Tribes”. If you haven’t bought his book – borrow it!

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Jacqueline Novogratz at TED@State

I am pleased to say that I know Jacqueline a little from previous TED events – and the Acumen Fund that she founded and runs is a brilliant way of balancing entrepreneurial (read that money making) activity with doing social good for some of the poorest people on Earth.

Jacqueline made a presentation in June to [...]