Posts Tagged ‘Guadalupe de la Mata’
If not me, who? if not now, when?
For the launch of the UN’s new campaign HeForShe, a movement dedicated to putting an end to gender inequality, this weekend Emma Watson delivered an empowering speech on feminism to a standing ovation. The first campaign of its kind at the UN, HeForShe will, according to Emma, “try and galvanise as many men and boys as possible to…
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How to promote positive change in teams and organizations with Appreciative Inquiry
I am a big fan of Appreciative Inquiry (AI) as an approach to introduce change in organizations, teams, communities and workshops and also for personal and leadership development. I like it because it proposes a shift from problem solving to identifying and building on existing strengths. The basic tenet of AI is that a team or…
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What is Social Innovation?
I like the way Social innovation is enjoying growing recognition all over the world. I really think it is the future to solve many of our current social and environmental problems, and that is the reason why I support it and share methodologies, case studies and all kind of information of all those that want to…
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My 10 favourite Social Innovation Practices: summary and free ebook
There are many practices and methods to facilitate Social Innovation and Collaborative Leadership that can be adapted depending to the context and needs of the specific problem we want to solve. I have mentioned and written about many of them in this blog and have received a lot of questions and interest around them. In…
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12 Thought-Provoking Questions to give you life perspective
Thought-provoking questions are deep inquiries that shine a light on the essence of living and awaken our full potential as human beings. If you would like to maximize the benefits of self reflection, ask yourself questions that provoke your mind and force you to reconsider the way you live and the way you look at the…
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10 Golden Rules of Design Thinking: Promoting collaboration and innovation in your teams
I have “talked” about Design Thinking in this blog many times as a great tool to promote innovation both at company, project and team level. There are toolkits to adapt it to social innovation projects and for educators and for social entrepreneurs. I have used it in different settings, both with students at university and in…
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The Top 10 Ways People Are Changing the Economy
There is a crisis out there, but also a lot of people that are thinking of new ways to change the economy for the good and that are implementing them. Here is a list of 10 trends you may be considering…. we are also mapping them in this maps: Planet for Change so if you want to…
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A World Bank initiative to find Solutions for Job Creation… collectively we can have more impact
I want to share with you an initiative launched by the World bank to look for practical solutions to expand job creation. This is an example of how the public sector can apply “collective intelligence” to find new and innovative solutions for an specific purpose. In this sense, the World Bank has established a number…
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Bill Drayton´s Five trends for Social Entrepreneurship
At a recent event in NYC, journalist and author David Bornstein interviewed Ashoka Founder Bill Drayton about the future of social entrepreneurship. In case you missed it, here is the video of the interview Find also below a recap of the event from Eli Malinsky of the Centre for Social Innovation. 1.) Find Comfort in Change The pace of…
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