Career Guidance Articles
How One SAP Leader Supported a CEO Navigating Leadership Transition
When Maggie Ramaiah, a Vice President at SAP, first came across the opportunity to volunteer her skills with a social enterprise through the MovingWorlds platform, she didn’t hesitate. “I’ve always been a big believer in sharing my knowledge, expertise, and skills with whoever it can benefit,”...
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Key Takeaways: Behind the Scenes of Scaling ESG at a Global Corporation
Key takeaways from our Environmental, Social, & Governance learning group and workshop with Caroline Meledo, Director of ESG at Bayer Consumer Care.
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100 Best Places to Look for Social Impact Jobs in 2023
Whether you’re looking for a job in social enterprise, nonprofit, philanthropy, sustainability, global development, social finance, NGOs, or tech for good, here are the 100 best places to find them in 2023.
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What To Do When You’re Feeling Stuck at Work
Three practical steps to take when you're feeling stuck at work, and how to learn more from people who have navigated their own transitions to purposeful work.
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Habits to Incorporate in Your Career Change Journey: Advice from 30 Global Fellows
30 Global Fellows share the most helpful habits or practices they've incorporated into their own successful career transitions.
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10 Blog Posts to Make You a More Effective CSR Leader in 2022
CSR leaders are uniquely positioned to make their companies sustainable forces for good - and these top 10 blog posts from 2021 will help you do that even more effectively in 2022.
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85 Best Places to Look for Social Impact Jobs in 2022
Ready for a more purposeful career in 2022? Here are the 85 best social impact job boards to jump-start your search.
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How to Stay Sane During A Career Transition: Advice from MovingWorlds Institute Alumni
We asked 30 Global Fellowship alumni the question, “With all of the uncertainty we’re living through, what advice would you give to people to stay sane through the career transition process?” Here's what they shared:
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Ready for a Change but Not Sure Where to Start? 30 Global Fellows Share Their Best Advice
30 Global Fellows share their best advice for professionals ready to make a career change but not sure were to start.
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Listen to This if You’re Feeling Stuck in the Wrong Career
Get inspired to make a change by listening to MovingWorlds in-house storytelling expert Alexandra's personal career transition story, and the twists and turns along the way.
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[Infographic] How to Set Goals for Your Career
A practical 6-step approach to setting goals for your career that are SMART, actionable, and will take you to the next level.
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10 Steps to Change Careers to Social Impact [with infographic]
Our proven 10 step framework for career change to social impact, including a video walkthrough of the complete guide and an overview of each step.
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What Business Leaders Need to Know About the Great Resignation
Learn how employers can make meaningful investments in their employee's evolving needs for purpose and impact to weather the Great Resignation.
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How to Find a More Fulfilling Career During the Great Resignation
Learn how to take advantage of the Great Resignation to create a more fulfilling career, either at your current company or by making a career change. #greatresignation4change
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What is "The Great Resignation?"
40% of workers globally are thinking of handing in their notice. Learn why this Great Resignation is happening now, and how it fits into the broader movement towards purposeful work. #Greatresignation #greatresignation4change #purpose
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Social Impact Jobs — What They Are, and How to Find Them
Learn what a social impact job is, helpful frameworks for thinking through your options, as well as a list of top social impact job boards to start your search. #socialimpactcareer #socialimpactjob
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All 10 Steps of Our #SocialImpactCareerGuide
A 10-step guide to career change for social impact (with templates and examples for each step) to help you make a change that sets you up to thrive in the long-term.
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How to Write Professional Goals
Learn how to write SMART professional goals in six steps, with examples and a template to help you achieve them. #Howtowriteprofessionalgoals #HowtowriteSMARTgoals #SettingGoals
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A LinkedIn Template to Help You with Virtual Networking
A networking template to help you make the ask to schedule time with a new connection to develop your professional relationship.
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How to Change Careers to Social Impact: Step 6 – Find Your Ideal Organization
Learn how to find and keep track of the best places to put your unique combination of skills and strengths to work in Step 6 of our #SocialImpactCareerGuide.
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70 Best Places to Look for Social Impact Jobs in 2021
Amidst this social and environmental awakening, there will be more social impact job opportunities than ever. Here's where to find them in 2021.
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2020 Changed Everything— Here's How We Used the Crises to Build Back Better.
Reflections on how our global community came together to find opportunity in disruptive change to advance the social enterprise movement
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A Guide to Self-Care for Social Impact Professionals in 2021
Let's face it: it's been a tough year. Learn individual and organizational shifts you can make to support your wellbeing in 2021
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An Email Template to Help You Network Virtually
An email template to help you leverage LinkedIn for second-degree connections that build your network.
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Top 10 Podcasts to Develop Your Career in 2021
Turn downtime into career development time this holiday season with these 10 career podcasts.
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30 Social Entrepreneurs Share Their Best Advice for Scaling Your Social-Good Business
Experience is a master teacher, even when it's not your own. 30 social enterprise founders share advice for scaling your business.
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How to Change Careers to Social Impact: Step 3 – Shortlist Causes
An interactive exercise to help you narrow down which SDGs to apply your unique strengths and purpose towards for maximum impact.
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How to Change Careers to Social Impact: Step 2 – Zero In On Your Purpose
Your strengths and purpose are the foundation of a fulfilling career change to social impact. Try this exercise to develop your own purpose statement.
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4 Ways CSR Leaders Can Build More Internal Support For Their Programs
4 ways CSR leaders can keep internal stakeholders engaged in our now-virtual world.
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How to Change Careers to Social Impact: Step 1 - Audit Your Strengths
To know where you want to go, you first need to understand yourself. Use this template to audit your unique strengths.
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5 Things Impactful CSR Programs Have in 2020
To ensure sustainable, long-term impact, here are 5 things that your CSR program needs.
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5 Myths About Making an Early-Stage Career Change
Feeling stuck at work? Making a change early on is not a career limiting move! Here are 5 busted myths about early-stage career change.
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4 Steps to Help You Make an Impact With Your Career in the Post-COVID "New Normal"
If you're rethinking your career trajectory as a result of COVID, take these 4 steps to find more meaningful work in the "new normal".
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Building More Impactful Virtual Learning Communities
Virtual learning technology and communities are not a compromise or a back-up plan. They are opportunities to increase access, improve outcomes, and engage more diverse participants. Here are 9 lessons (with recommendations) we've learned in operating global, virtual learning communities...
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20 Quotes to Inspire You to Find More Purpose in Your Work
The difference between meaningful work and a draining trudge to the weekend is that sense of purpose. Here are 20 quotes to help you find purpose in your work...
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How to Advance Your Career While Working Remotely During COVID-19
Seven best practices to help you use remote-working time to invest in your own personal and professional growth. Whether you've gone to virtual work because of COVID or a career-change, this guide will help you keep advancing your career.
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A Simple Approach to Understanding Your Purpose
What purpose is (and isn't), how your purpose drivers influence your work and leadership style, and how to uncover your unique purpose profile
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25 Best Places to Look for Social Impact Jobs in Europe in 2020
A regional list of social impact job boards to help EU-based changemakers find the best opportunities to drive positive change with their careers.
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20 Must-Read Books in 2020 for Aspiring & Scaling Social Entrepreneurs #SocentReadingList
20 books to help you better understand social entrepreneurship, along with concrete tools and methods to help you bring your impactful ideas to life.
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The 51 Best Places to Look for Social Impact Jobs in 2020
Looking for a new job this New Year? Make the most of 'Job Search January' with this list of the 51 best places to look for social impact jobs in 2020.
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20 Books to Help You Grow and/or Change Your Career in 2020 #SocentReadingList
If you're thinking about a job change in 2020, here are the 20 top books to help you take the leap. Read our summaries of each below to find the best book that will give you the most relevant guidance at your particular phase of the job change journey. For a little extra help, make sure to check...
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Top 10 Benefits of a Global Professional Fellowship
Are you where you want to be in your life and career? Learn how a global professional fellowship can help you align with your purpose and make a bigger impact with your career.
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Changing Careers? Avoid These 10 Common Mistakes
To support all of the courageous career-changers out there, we asked 20 career coaches the question, “What is one common mistake you see people make when they are making a career change (or thinking about making a change)? Here are the 10 common mistakes to avoid, and how to avoid them.
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'Designing Your Life' Tools and Resources
Framing our life and career transitions as design challenges can help us find clarity on next steps. Get started 'Designing Your Life' with these free resources from Dave Evans & Bill Burnett's book
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Advice from 20 career coaches to help you find more meaning at work – without changing jobs
Looking for more meaning in your work (without changing jobs)? 20 career coaches share their best advice for designing your life to be more meaningful, both inside and outside of work.
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20 career coaches share their best advice for changing careers
We asked 20 certified Designing Your Life career coaches for their best piece of advice for something considering a career change. Read the full piece to see what they shared!
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Understanding Your Strengths with SIGNs
A smart, easy way to better understand your strengths, and how to build your career around them using SIGNs.
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10 Steps to Get You From Burned Out to Purpose-Driven
Feeling burned out at work? Get back on track with our guide, "10 Steps to Get You From Burned Out to Purpose Driven"
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Career Change for Social Impact—Our 11-Step Guide to Finding More Purpose in Your Work and Making the World Better with Your Career
11 steps to help you find more purpose in your work and make a bigger impact with your career.
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Facing a tough career choice in 2019? You need to listen to this advice from Jeff Bezos
What do you do when you have some exciting - and maybe scary - career choices... and the advice from your friends, role models, and family conflict? Listen to this advice from Jeff Bezos.
Continue reading >6 Must-Read Books to Help You Navigate a Career Change in 2019
Thinking about changing your career in 2018? These 6 must-read books will help you better understand yourself, your career transition, and what steps you should take next to land your dream job.
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32 (now 42) of the best places to look for purposeful jobs that make the world better - updated May 2019
Navigating a career transition is no easy task... and finding new opportunities is certainly one of the biggest challenges in that journey. Here are 28 of the best places to look for purposeful jobs that make the world better.
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Our Enhanced Programs Help You Create Change, Be Changed
We launched some major updates to our Experteering platform and community in April 2018 - here's how they affect you.
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MovingWorlds Institute is Coming to Europe (and we couldn’t be more excited)
The MovingWorlds Institute helps develop leaders solving our greatest challenges. Join us!
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How to Ask Your Boss for EXTRA Time Off to Travel (and maybe some budget, too)
Have you ever sat at your desk at work, daydreaming about traveling to a remote nation and living a different life, even if for just a few weeks? It's hard to find time for vacation, but with these tips, we hope to inspire and empower you to find EXTRA time off to travel the world
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Find, Earn, and Succeed in a Job That You Love (and that makes the world better)
Did you know there is a lion inside of you? @Aaron_Hurst #couragous #leader, #growth #impact @thrive https://t.co/NTlrCiFsQZ — Kevin Cashman (@Kevin_Cashman) September 21, 2017 5. It Takes Work, But There is a Way. To truly prosper in your career, you need to take steps to orient your career in...
Continue reading >What does it take to be a successful social entrepreneur? These 65 leaders from #SOCAP17 weighed in
What does it take to be a successful social entrepreneur? These 65 leaders from #SOCAP17 weighed in.
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Is it time to find your purpose?
Announcing a new program to help grow as a professional while making the world a better place. You know that feeling you get at work… the gnawing question about whether the work you do is making a difference? Is it contributing to the greater good? Does it fulfill you? You’re not alone...
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The 19 (now 23) Best Places to Look for Social Impact Jobs - Updated September 2018
Finding a job that fulfills you is challenging and time-consuming. Here are the 19 best places to help you find a career that keeps you engaged and makes the world better.
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8 Benefits of a Social Impact Fellowship
We've updated this post! See the top 10 benefits of a global professional fellowship here. As people increasingly look to experiential learning programs and more international exposure to grow their skills and networks, we thought we’d take a minute to share some of the great benefits of one of...
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Announcing the MovingWorlds Institute: Helping you find a career that makes you and the world better
Announcing the MovingWorlds Institute - helping high achieving professionals transition to social good careers.
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Making the Career Switch: How to Land an Impact Job You Love
Theory and real, practical tips to help you find an impact job you'll love. Created in partnership with Walk of Life Consulting and Net Impact.
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6 Ways Experteering Can Help You Reach Your Full Potential
Are you proud of your career? Here are 6 ways to reach your full potential.
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Giving Back to Get Ahead - A Free Webinar (Sponsored by Cal Alumni Association)
To share the latest insights on how giving back can help you get ahead, we will join Berkeley's Webinar Series on March 2nd for a free, interactive webinar to help you identify how you can get head in your professional life while giving back
Continue reading >3 Practical Tips to Make your Volunteer Experience Standout on Your Resume (and help you earn your dream job)
Finding and earning your dream job is no easy process. But if you take the time to give back to your community, then your service might just give you the edge. In a recent study, we found that volunteering experience on a resume helps people get their dream job. “...many recruiters (and anybody...
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The TED Talk MBA
A collection of 161 (and counting) TED Talks that cover essential theories, skills, and concepts taught at leading MBA programs.
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3 Must Read HBR Articles About Becoming a Better Business Leader
"The skills that help you climb to the top won’t suffice once you get there" A recent study from PwC highlights that 93% of CEO's recognize the need to develop a leadership development strategy, while less than 1/3 actually do. While it might be a while until your company has a fully optimized...
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Want a For-good Career? Get More Experience, Not Education
According to the annual Net Impact study, there is a growing demand of "for-good" careers. In order to find your dream for-good career, maybe school isn't what you need. Experience is. In one of the latest articles on the popular blog, Barking Up the Wrong Tree, Eric Barker write about '8 Things...
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An Amazing TED Talk on the Power of Embracing Failure
After last week's post on what the global development industry can learn from software developers we received a lot of positive feedback and traffic. In that post, we outlined 4 ways that we can embrace failure to increase the speed of innovation and growth: Plan for Failure. Test (and design)...
Continue reading >A Global Fellowship Program Worth Talking About
There are a lot of Fellowship programs. Acumen, Kiva, and Vittana fellows are the most popular, but this brand new fellowship program from More Than Me is like the salesforce.com of fellowships programs... which is to say that it's new, rapidly growing, and inspiringly innovative. We love to see...
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Planning for Success
I recently came across an impressive planning document for the construction of an eco-friendly school in Haiti on the architecture blog of CTA Design Builders located in Seattle. The entire project plan, made public in an article about Empowerment Through Design, explores all the necessary...
Continue reading >To Do Good, Be Good
If you haven't read Eric Barker's blog, Barking up the Wrong Tree, you're missing out. His latest post provides the best post I've ever seen to help people find meaning in their lives, and find fulfillment they are worthy of. Here are his 4 tips for creating a life you'll be excited to tell your...
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The Best Thing for Your Career: Start New
Malcom Gladwell is not the only one to recommend new experiences to re-discover innovation, creativity, passion, and ultimately, accelerate career growth. In a previous post, we wrote about one of the best career development tools is having global experience.
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When it Comes to Great Careers, Take More Risks
Only 45% of employees are satisfied with their careers. This might be you, or it might be the people who work for you. Regardless, it's a shocking statistic that highlights just how few people LOVE their work. So who are 55% who are satisfied, and who are the smaller fraction of people that LOVE...
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7 Tips to Foster Innovation
Inspired by The Guardian Activate Summit in New York, here are 7 vital elements for spurring innovation within your organization. 1. Start at the Top. Leaders must lead. Period. Innovation will only occur when leaders inspire people to achieve more than they thought possible, and reward audacity...
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4 Startup Tips from Reid Hoffman at the Guardian Activate Summit in New York
At the Guardian Activate Summit in New York, Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn) took the stage with Jeff Jarvis (BuzzMachine) to discuss the power of social networks and big data for facilitating change. In an enlightening QA, they discussed how startups can leverage technology to make a bigger impact...
Continue reading >Three Essentials to Make the Most Out of Conferences
Last week, I had the opportunity to speak with Robin Hough, one of the Masterminds behind the much anticipated Guardian Activate Summit in New York on May 3,2012. In addition sharing with me the AMAZING line-up of presenters that will be a the event, we also spoke a great deal about HOW to make...
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7 Keys To Launching Your Big Idea
This past week at the WeMedia PitchIt! Challenge, an all-star cast of judges and mentors shared advice to entrepreneurs working to launch new businesses. Here are 7 tips from this amazing event to help you grow and pitch your start-up. 1: Thrive, Don't Sustain. Find (and communicate) a revenue...
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A Magnificent Failure
There has been talk that maybe NASA "shot too high". I disagree... Maybe it didn't shoot high enough...
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Be Open. Be Fearless.
The Guardian Activate Summit is a conference all about using technology to make the world better, yet not one speaker has a strong technical background – and for a very good reason: technology isn’t solving the world’s problems, people are. If you want to make an impact in the world, you must be...
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The 3 A's of Innovation
"There ain't no rules around here. We're trying to accomplish somep'n!" -Thomas Edison Ambition. Nothing creates success like ambition, passion, tenacity, and grit. The greatest innovators of all time fail, and fail a lot. It takes ambition to get back up. Lots of it. But if you want to...
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Four Ways to Accelerate Your Career
Gone are the days of continuing education, company jumping, graduate degrees, and ass-kissing to fast-track your career. According to the Harvard Business Review, jobs at large corporations are increasingly volatile, employee engagement is decreasing, and anxiety about career growth is...
Continue reading >8 Secrets to Fuel Innovation
HOW DO YOU FUEL INNOVATION? This post was partially inspired by a great article on Think With Google titled "8 Pillars of Innovation"
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3 Must Read Articles To Be A Better Social Entrepreneur
Business is the most effective tool to drive of social and environmental progress - this is why small and growing businesses around the world are doing more to eradicate poverty, increase access to healthy food and water, and improve education than any other type of institution. But it is the...
Continue reading >What Is Your Champagne Moment?
At what point will you celebrate? At what point will you say you have been a success? The cardinals did it when they won the World Series. I did it when I made it home safely from my around the world Global Volunteering Adventure. Facebook did it when they hit 1 million users. It doesn’t mark...
Continue reading >How Do You Unleash Ideas?
Just imagine, what would this world be like if your idea became a reality? Check out this video about the power of unleashing ideas: Need more inspiration and information? Check out the Global Entrepreneurship Week at unleashingideas.org
Continue reading >Get Really Good At Failing
- John F. Kennedy What other tips do you have to get good at failing?
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