Skoll 2011 Interviews: Rod Schwartz, Lars Johansen, and Biju Mohandas
Interview with Rod Schwartz, founder of ClearlySo, a company that helps entrepreneurs with raising capital, team building, product sales, and financial management.
Leadership - Articles
Innovative ways to develop strong leadership capabilities (more)
Thinking Small
The problem with “changing the world” is that it probably involves invoking impossibly superficial means to address oversimplified problems.
Beyond the CSR Department: Corporate Intrapreneurs Forge Another Path
It turns out that change initiatives are very often driven by intrapreneurs—individuals working in so-called “conventional” roles.
Podcast
Jonathan Reckford The Power of Leadership in Social Enterprise
Habitat for Humanity's Jonathan Reckford talks about what makes an exceptional leader, his career journey, sources of inspiration, and the principles behind managing organizations well.
Increasing Civic Reach
Nonprofits must have influential board members who connect them to the communities they serve.
Review
Who Are the Change Makers?
Driving Social Change: How to Solve the World’s Toughest Problems by Paul C. Light
Review
Passing the Mic
20Under40: Re-Inventing the Arts and Arts Education for the 21st Century Edited by Edward P. Clapp
Review
When Good Is Just Not Good Enough
The Imaginations of Unreasonable Men: Inspiration, Vision, and Purpose in the Quest to End Malaria by Bill Shore
Podcast
Education for the Real World
Microsoft founder Bill Gates challenges Stanford MBA students to take on the world’s difficult problems as a focus of their career or life mission.
US-China Relations: Leadership Lessons on Confrontation and Dialogue from Nonprofits
Investing in leadership development represents a prerequisite to a new US foreign policy that is more in accord with today’s unstable and volatile times.