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5 Difficult but Feasible Steps to Reverse the Climate Crisis

UVA Darden

The scale and scope of the crisis leads many to paralysis. But targeted public and private investment can help rapidly scale these new technologies while simultaneously halting further deforestation of critical carbon sinks, valuable for absorbing more carbon than they release. His latest book, Can Business Save the Earth?

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What Business Leaders Can Learn From The Afghanistan Disaster

Chief Executive

I participated in these official discussions from 2011 to 2013 and in unofficial talks in 2017 and 2018. On a larger scale, the United States shielded the Afghan government from the consequences of its actions. Taliban agreement and the withdrawal of American troops, the scales finally fell from the eyes of Afghan officials.

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How to Ensure Your Organization’s Digital Transformation Succeeds

Michael McKinney

In 2013, Nokia’s mobile phone business was sold to Microsoft. The driving force behind digital transformations is adopting and implementing digital technologies to processes, products, and assets to improve efficiency, enhance customer value, manage risk, and uncover new monetization opportunities. Nokia just couldn’t keep up.

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SAMRIDH: Using Blended Finance Toward Quality Health Care in India

UVA Darden

multiple challenges limit their ability to scale up, including lack of capital, market access, regulatory roadblocks and market inefficiencies. SAMRIDH is paving the way to create a conducive ecosystem for scaling-up market-based health care solutions targeted to improve health care services for vulnerable communities. Learn More.

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Very Cheap, Then Very Expensive (On Job Titles)

Ed Batista

A theme in my work with founder/CEOs is what I call "the judicious imposition of structure," which includes the need to clarify who's responsible for what and how decisions get made as the organization scales. [5] When enough people--or the right people--believe a story, it suddenly becomes true. [7] They become constraints in themselves.

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5 Reasons Why a Flat Organizational Structure Fails & What you can Do about it

Get Lighthouse

This is exactly the problem that caused Medium to move away from holacracy as they wrote: "Our experience was that it was difficult to coordinate efforts at scale. As Boston-based Wistia found as they grew from 2 to 30 to over 60 people, a flat structure went from an asset to a blocker. Scaling and growing a business is really hard.

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