AchieveMission
Organization, Website with Resources
AchieveMission helps visionary CEOs and leadership teams build high-performing social purpose organizations. AchieveMission empowers leaders to learn and implement proven leadership development and talent management practices.
+ACUMEN
Organization, Online Courses
+ACUMEN makes Acumen's work in leadership and insights from their work in the field available to everyone through online courses and in-person networks.
Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs
Organization, Website with Resources
The Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE) is a global membership network of organizations that propel entrepreneurship in emerging markets. ANDE members provide financial, educational and business support services to small and growing businesses (SGBs).
Bankers Without Borders
Organization
Bankers Without Borders has a volunteer reserve corps of more than 19,700 professionals from more than 170 countries. These volunteers donate their time pro bono to provide consulting, coaching and training services in banking and finance, technology, marketing and human resources.
Edge Performance
Organization
Edge uses its experience from working with small and medium businesses across four continents to tackle team performance challenges.
Gene Pool Engineering for Entrepreneurs
Article and Video
Kholsa Ventures offers a hiring model for developing the optimal mix of team member backgrounds and maximizing the probability of success.
Global Social Benefit Institute (GSBI®)
Capacity Development Program
Global Social Benefit Institute (GSBI®) delivers accelerator programs that connect global social enterprise leaders with Silicon Valley business executives to develop more sustainable, scalable market-based solutions to the problems of those living in poverty around the world.
Grow Coaching Model
Website
The GROW Coaching Model is a tried and tested model to structure coaching sessions. The model encourages learning through experience and leads to clearly defined end results through four phases: reflection, insight, making choices and pursuing them.
How Great Leaders Inspire Action
TED Talk Video
Simon Sinek has a simple but powerful model for inspirational leadership -- starting with a golden circle and the question "Why?". In this talk, Sinek explores how leaders can inspire cooperation, trust and change.
How to Pitch a VC
TED Talk Video
David S. Rose's rapid-fire TED U talk on pitching to a venture capitalist tells you the 10 things you need to know about yourself -- and prove to a VC -- before you fire up your slideshow.
Jhana Education
Website with Resources
Jhana's mission is simple: help people be more successful at work. Jhana believes that when managers do better, so do the companies they work for and the teams they work with.
Letters to a Young Entrepreneur
Book, Website with Resources
Richardo Levy's book offers personal stories on growth as a leader and entrepreneur. The accompanying website offers Levy's reflections on his leadership experiences.
NESsT
Organization, Website with Resources
Grow your business with tools & resources designed especially for social entrepreneurs. Developed from NESsT's 20 years of growing social enterprises, the website offers necessary tools you need to plan for, start up and better manage your social enterprise, and to learn from the models and lessons of your peers.
Message Map: How to Pitch Anything in 15 Seconds
Video
Carmine Gallo tells you how to pitch anything in 15 seconds using a Message Map.
Society for Effectual Action
Website
Whether you are an entrepreneurial newbie or a seasoned creator of new ventures, you can learn about the science of entrepreneurship at the Society for Effectual Action. This site describes a common logic observed in expert entrepreneurs and offers a method for can help you tacked problems while growing your business.
The 20 Minute Business Plan: Business Model Canvas Made Easy
Website
Alexander Crowan walks you through each of the nine key elements of the Business Model Canvas, giving you a way to assess your business in a focused, flexible and transparent way.
The Alliance: Managing Talent in a Networked Age
Book
Co-authored by Reid Hoffman, founder/chairman of LinkedIn, The Alliance teaches managers how to recruit, manage, and retain the entrepreneurial employees your business needs to succeed in the networked age.
The Field Guide to Human-Centered Design
Book
From IDEO.org, The Field Guide to Human-Centered Design has everything you need to understand the people you're designing for, to have more effective brainstorms, to prototype your ideas, and to ultimately arrive at more creative solutions.
The World Factbook
Website
The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, communications, transportation, military and transnational issues for 267 countries.
World Economic Forum Academy
Organization, Website
The World Economic Forum Academy helps business leaders develop contextual intelligence -- the ability to make sense of a fast-changing world.
