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Leadership for Social Change: The Social Change Model for Leadership Development
Last week I gave a Values-Based Leadership course in the framework of the Master in Professional Development-Programa GAIA. During the class, we discussed the current leadership crisis, the New Leadership Paradigm and the importance of values for future leaders. There are a number of interesting values based leadership models; among them, there is one I like a…
Leer másLeadership for Social Change… an interesting video
This interactive multi-media presentation details the month Keady, the director of Educating for Justice, spent in an Indonesian factory workers slum living on $1.25 a day, a typical wage paid to Nike’s subcontracted workers. Along with personal accounts, the presentation includes the latest information on Nike’s labor and environmental practices and challenges the audience to…
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An example of social enterprise: Academic Earth. Online courses from top scholars
Looking at examples of social enterprises and how social entrepreneurs come up with business ideas I discovered Academic Earth, an organization founded with the goal of giving everyone on earth access to a world-class education. The Founder, Richard Ludlow, came up with the idea while studying international development at Yale University. Throughout college, Richard had been particularly inspired by…
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