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Tag Archives: Innovation
5 tough questions
Today is the second annual NextGen:Charity conference. To commemorate the conference, Ari Teman, co-founder of the conference along with Jonah Halper, asked me to respond to five questions about innovation in the developing world, leadership, faith, blogging, and failure. Here’s … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs
Tagged blogging, development, faith, Generosity, Innovation, NextGen:charity, poverty
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Innovation isn’t really like apple pie
No one dislikes “innovation” as a concept. It’s like mom and apple pie (in the US at least) – no one will ever, ever stand up and say, “I’d like us to innovate less!!” No, that would be too obvious. … Continue reading
Radical openness and what it means for conferences
I had a surreal moment yesterday, while sitting in the audience at The New York Forum with my laptop open. I had WiFi connectivity, so, out of curiosity, I logged into the live stream of the panel I was attending. … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences
Tagged Change, conferences, connection, Innovation, Opportunity Collaboration, panels, Tallberg, TED, TEDx
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One thing, many things
I was recently talking to a banker I know who shared that he occasionally works from home, but it can be frustrating because, due to security concerns, he is not allowed to print any documents when he’s not in … Continue reading
The power and limits of controlled experiments
The Freakanomics blog is running a fun contest asking readers to predict whether providing more factual evidence of impact increases or decreases donations. Dean Karlan, co-author with Jacob Appel of More Than Good Intentions is running an experiment in partnership … Continue reading
Posted in Innovation
Tagged Dean Karlan, Esther Duflo, Freakonomics, Innovation, Poor Economics
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My toothbrush was good enough
My toothbrush was good enough. In fact, it had been good enough for a while. I didn’t need the Colgate 360 toothbrush, and I doubt you did either. Admittedly, it’s an impressive toothbrush. Look at all the features packed into … Continue reading
Will innovative philanthropy always be a niche?
In preparation for the Feast Debate that I’m moderating next week, I was having a conversation today about trends in the philanthropic space. Someone made the offhanded remark, “Well, there’s clearly a trend of philanthropic dollars being harder to come … Continue reading
Which chorus?
You’re probably hearing one of two choruses right now: “Slow down! You’re not being practical. That’s not possible. I don’t get it and don’t see how we’ll get there. You need to make things smaller, more clear, more well-defined, more … Continue reading
Plus first
In February I blogged about Randy Nelson’s, President of Pixar University, talk about the core skill of innovators being “failure recovery, not error avoidance.” Before getting to this point, Randy talks about the environment that nurtures creativity at Pixar. One … Continue reading
