Business
Small Is Big
An excerpt from The New Builders on balancing scale with innovation and the vital role played by small businesses.
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Tag: Innovation
Environment
Getting Honest About What We’re Willing to Risk for the Planet
Why NGOs and funders need to take bigger leaps toward innovation in environmental conservation, and how a back-of-the-napkin risk assessment tool can help.
Review
Social Services
Homelessness Innovations That Might Work
Ten Global Cities features a range of interventions that can, through dedicated collaboration, provide solutions to homelessness.
Health
Rebuilding an Age-Integrated Society
Social innovation separated old from young, sowing disconnection and discontent. Here’s how we can come together again.
Environment
Partnering to Save a Biodiversity Hotspot
An American funding collaborative is on a mission to help environmental advocates in Southeast Asia protect the Mekong River. Can it do so while navigating the tide of regional politics?
Review
Scaling
The Next Silicon Valley
Dan Breznitz’s Innovation in Real Places challenges readers to reconsider the disruptive approach to innovation.
Leadership
Big Ideas Are Not Enough
Having a great idea is only half of the innovation journey: For your brainchild to succeed, guard against these four implementation myths.
Nonprofits & NGOs
Twin Engines for Propelling Social Impact
The business world’s “Engine 1/Engine 2” concept can help ambitious nonprofits balance today’s needs with tomorrow’s potential.
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Leadership
An Antidote to Orthodoxy
A new book argues that “alien” thinking can drive social change.
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Collaboration
A Collaborative Philosophy
A new book examines how the world of ideas shapes social innovation.