Net Impact Blog: Issues in Depth
A closer look at the speakers behind our Issues in Depth online dialogues, which provide a critical look at sustainability and corporate responsibility issues, including best practices, case studies, career guidance, and more.
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Quick Tips: Transitioning to the Impact Sector
Is there something meaningful missing from your job? Maybe you’re looking for a role where you can do more for the world with the skills you have. Then flip through this deck of tips straight from Making the Switch: Transition Your Career into the Impact Sector, our recent Issues in Depth call featuring nonprofit and for-profit professionals who’ve done just that...
Why Are These Companies Supporting LGBT Rights?
Corporate America proves an ally for LGBT equality
In more than half of the United States, it’s still legal to fire someone for being gay. Yet, as participants learned in a recent Issues in Depth call, it was also in many ways a landmark year for LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) equality – and perhaps most surprisingly, big business has been ahead of the curve...
Three Myths of the Impact Job Search
Think you know what it takes to land that perfect impact job? Do you even know what that job looks like? Even the savviest Net Impacter can benefit from a closer look at the reality of positioning yourself for a job in this market...
Approaching International Development with Local Solutions
Q&A with "Issues in Depth" Speaker Mireille Mather
International development efforts sometimes come under fire for steamrolling over local communities, pushing an outsider’s agenda in ways that don’t truly solve the problems of the people living with them over the long-term. Mireille Cronin Mather, Executive Director of the Foundation for Sustainable Development, will discuss the highly-localized approach her organization takes in our upcoming "Invest in Local Solutions, End Global Problems" Issues in Depth call this Thursday, Aug. 16. Today, she gives our readers a sneak peek, getting real about what it takes to make a sustainable impact on communities around the world...
A Business Model of Infinite Vision
Q&A with documentarian Pavithra Mehta
In 2002, Pavithra Mehta began interviewing her granduncle Dr. V, a retired ophthalmologist and founder of the highly profitable eye care practice Aravind. Aravind performs hundreds of thousands of eye surgeries every year, approximately 70% of which are subsidized or provided free of charge to the poor. In a recent email exchange, Pavithra explored with us how her experience of bearing witness as a documentarian can serve an organization that helps others see.
Rethinking Leadership: Getting to Know the Chief Emotions Officer
Business is a numbers game. Emotions are a sign of weakness. Real leadership demands unflagging certainty and intellect. Conventional wisdom, it would seem, expects a superhuman CEO. But Joie de Vivre founder and best-selling author Chip Conley argues that perhaps we're thinking about leadership all wrong. What really defines a successful CEO, he says, is emotional intelligence, or EQ.
Product Development Roles Make a Sustainable Impact
Sometimes the biggest wins can spring from the smallest moments. Who would have thought that a short conversation with a coworker would lead two employees to develop the Freecycle@Work recycling model that gets folks at more than 2,500 companies to turn one employee's trash into another's treasure.
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