Giving things away – when will we learn? (MBAs – take note!)
In business school you are surrounded by people who believe in the power of markets. There are people in my class who are passionate about freeing markets, about scaling enterprises, and about...
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#KONY2012 – The good, the bad, and the media
My goodness… I have never gotten more emails, Facebook messages, and general questions about a social sector issue than this week with #KONY2012. “What do I think?”, you ask? In case you have really...
View ArticleFocus on HOW
“People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it,” says Simon Sinek in his very popular TEDx talk. And he’s right. People buy thy WHY. The thing is… this is a big problem in development work!...
View ArticleHow to create large scale systematic change: The Jeff Skoll Group (from...
Walking through the Skoll World Forum last week was like watching the ingredients to make a cake get mixed in a bowl. Each had been hand picked and was being mixed together to make something no one...
View ArticleMeet PEPY Tours
The PEPY Tours team put together a short animated video about the history of PEPY Tours and the ways our work has changed over the years. Check it out! Video by the @PEPYTours team with...
View ArticleTeacher Training in Cambodia (an idea)
Deciding what not to do is sometimes harder than deciding what to do, when you see many great possibilities for the future. I am surely having this problem with regards to post-gradschool life. And at...
View ArticleWhy You Should Say No to Orphanage Tourism (And Tell All Tour Companies to Do...
I just posted a new piece on Huffington Post Impact about the orphanage tourism issue in Cambodia. Check it out below: Why You Should Say No to Orphanage Tourism (And Tell All Tour Companies to Do the...
View ArticleBBC Four Thought Talk
I was lucky to be invited to do a BBC Four Thought Talk which was recorded a few weeks ago and will air tonight (8:45pm UK Time). The first draft of the talk was about 9000 words, which I cut down to...
View ArticleNGegO & the waste we cause by fueling aid hero-preneurs
A piece I wrote a bit ago and had been holding back on posting just went up on HuffPost…. as if I hadn’t caused enough of a stir already today! Yikes, here we go…. I’m off to bed! Any posts I put up...
View ArticleHow to Make Hard Choices (and why a universal NGO ranking system is impossible)
I’m sure most of you have viewed your fair share of TED talks. This one is about “How to Make Hard Choices” – and it is certainly worth a view as we all make “hard choices” every day and this...
View ArticleDoes this ‘Nepal’ image make you want to build these children a home?
Claire Bennett (of Learning Service) wrote a follow up piece to her first viral article on the Guardian. If this image of “Nepali” kids makes you want to donate to orphanages, look again....
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