Failing doesn’t make you a failure; it makes you a learner. If you don’t think that this applies to running a business or nonprofit, think again. Bad experience is a great business leader.

Free Content for AOL: Exploitation Or A Win-Win Collaboration?

by Geri Stengel on Feb 22, 2011 - 12:12am

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Here’s another fine mess! As an advocate of social media and collaboration, I am in a quandary. Do I agree with Stephen Colbert or do I support The Huffington Post in its “re-purposing” of material created by others?

Lawsuits "for the cure?" That's Wrong

by Geri Stengel on Jan 27, 2011 - 12:11am

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Cranky, self-serving competitiveness can undermine values-driven enterprises and waste a lot of scarce resources.

Yes, it's Susan G. Komen for the Cure again but Komen's flaunted, vaunted pink is just the most noticeable example.

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Collaboration, Social Media: They're Happening Already

by Geri Stengel on Jan 18, 2011 - 12:11am

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Synergy: That's the word that comes to mind when I read about the new micro-finance program to help women businesses here and abroad that brings together the knowledge and skills of a nonprofit, a for-profit, social media, and public figures who generate a lot of buzz.

Trends in 2011 Will Be Same as They Were in 2010: Collaboration, Social Media, Integrity

by Geri Stengel on Dec 21, 2010 - 9:04am

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Every conference I went to in 2010 stressed collaboration, whether in new forms of financing for social good, both nonprofit and social enterprises, or among co-workers, within sectors or across sectors to generate new products/services. If you didn't get the memo, check out some of the posts from the Social Impact Exchange 2010 Conference.

Break Down Walls to Build Creativity With New Technology

by Geri Stengel on Sep 23, 2010 - 8:00am

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This is one of three blogs about the future of tech-enabled business models. Check out Tech Knowledge Will Expand Markets, Services of Entrepreneurs and Nonprofits and Tagged Products, Smartphones Offer New Business and Fundraising Possibilities to read what else is in store.

Out with the old organization chart, in with the wiki-world. That's the gist of the first three of 10 tech-enabled business trends, according to a new McKinsey report.

Don't Grow Just to Get Bigger, Grow to Get Better

by Geri Stengel on Jun 17, 2010 - 12:44pm

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Growth capital is a great thing, but don't go after it unless getting bigger will also mean getting better. That was my takeaway from the "Readiness to Scale."

Millennials Will Force Businesses, Nonprofits to Change Culture… for the Good

by Geri Stengel on May 11, 2010 - 8:00am

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Time flies! The leading edge of GenX is entering its mid-life crisis period. The new kids on the block are the Millennials/GenYers, born between 1981 and 1996 into a world transfigured by a new kind of connectedness and technology.

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Here's What Small Business Leaders Can Learn From Big Businesses About Going Green

by Geri Stengel on Apr 20, 2010 - 9:20am

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"We're still here." So begins the State of Green Business Report from GreenBiz.com. The big news according to the report, is that green businesses were not the first to go during the Great Downturn.

Problem Solving: A Little Help From My Friends

by Geri Stengel on Apr 16, 2009 - 3:13pm

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I honed my hiking skills on well marked trails throughout the Northeast. If the weather wasn’t good, I didn’t hike. This didn’t prepare me for trekking the Himalayas in April. Like today’s economy, this was uncharted territory more hostile than I’d ever faced before.

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