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Tag Archives: Change
Leverage or control
Ever funder, rightly, loves “leverage,” as in “each dollar I put in brought in another four dollars of additional funding.” What’s not to love? Except of course that getting leverage means you’re giving up control. There are more folks around … Continue reading
What it takes to build dreams
I keep on bumping into the same parallel conversations around the future of the impact investing sector. With those in the trenches, what I hear continuously is that it is a long, hard slog. That companies take a long time … Continue reading
Posted in Impact investing
Tagged capital markets, Change, impact investing, public goods, returns
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Multi-purpose spoon
Your job isn’t to take the same thing that everyone else offers and pretend it’s something different. You job is to create something that actually is different and then let people in on the secret that you’ve made something remarkable. … Continue reading
A week
It hasn’t been a great winter for running for me. Between the cold snowy weather, late sunrises and general busyness, I’ve just not gotten out there that often. That didn’t stop me from deciding, this past weekend, to take my … Continue reading
Investing in leaders and ideas
At the start of this year, I took on a new role at Acumen as our Chief Innovation Officer. Acumen’s mission is to change the way the world tackles poverty by investing in companies, leaders and ideas. The Chief Innovation … Continue reading
And suddenly it’s up to you
I distinctly remember the first time I had this feeling in a professional setting. I was three years out of college, three years into my stint in management consulting, working for a client who wanted us to do a bunch … Continue reading
An “intangible” dividend?
So here’s a curious narrative: in the early 1990s, 4,600 poor families in LA, New York, Chicago and Boston were moved from very poor neighborhoods (more than half the residents living in poverty) to wealthier (less than a third of … Continue reading
Full and hopeful conviction
One of the great nuggets – that I’d otherwise have lost had it not been for the visual notes I took – from the Adaptive Leadership piece in HBR that I talked about yesterday is about how to run experiments … Continue reading
Posted in Change
Tagged adaptive leadership, Change, commitment, leadership, Ronald Heifetz
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10 (percent)
I’ve been finding a lot of power lately in 10% shifts in how I spend my time. It’s an increment big enough to matter – an experiment big enough that you can learn something – but small enough that there’s … Continue reading
Your job, and leverage
If your life is one of service, then the one question to ask yourself when figuring out where you are and where you’re going is: What role, what organization, what situation allows me to maximize the impact I’m having on … Continue reading
