Tuesday 31st March 2009, 17:03South Africa Social Enterprise of the YearI had the honour to attend the Nelson Mandela Promise of Leadership conference in Johannesburg this week. It was an amazing event with inputs from leading figures from around the world. The Promise of Leadership conference wanted to give the leaders of South Africa the opportunity to focus on the leadership that can flow from Mandela’s legacy to take South Africa into the future. What have we learnt? What can we take forward? What the seeds that we can plant now to grow leadership trees of the future?
For me there were four key issues from the conference.
• The voice of the young people..Roy NeweyView Complete Post Tuesday 31st March 2009, 16:06Social Policy ReformA lot of press coverage questions whether reforms to social policy - particularly welfare services - should be taken forward in the current economic climate. My own view is that they need to be put in place more quickly but such measures need to be agile and designed to respond to various 'shocks' to the market we see taking place. Predicting unpredictable events is hard but designing flexible solutions, that can be iterated, is core to reducing the impact of recession on those most vulnerable as well as newly unemployed. This sits at the centre of much of our discussion with governments ar.. Mark LovellView Complete Post Monday 30th March 2009, 16:04Social EnterpriseSouth Africa Social Enterprise of the Year
I had the honour to attend the Nelson Mandela Promise of Leadership conference in Johannesburg this week. It was an amazing event with inputs from leading figures from around the world. The Promise of Leadership conference wanted to give the leaders of South Africa the opportunity to focus on the leadership that can flow from Mandela’s legacy to take South Africa into the future. What have we learnt? What can we take forward? What the seeds that we can plant now to grow leadership trees of the future?
For me there were four key issues from the c..View Complete Post Wednesday 25th March 2009, 00:40South Africa Social Enterprise of the Year
I had the honour to attend the Nelson Mandela Promise of Leadership conference in Johannesburg this week. It was an amazing event with inputs from leading figures from around the world. The Promise of Leadership conference wanted to give the leaders of South Africa the opportunity to focus on the leadership that can flow from Mandela’s legacy to take South Africa into the future. What have we learnt? What can we take forward? What the seeds that we can plant now to grow leadership trees of the future?
For me there were four key issues from the conference.
• The voice of the young pe..View Complete Post Wednesday 25th March 2009, 00:39South Africa Social Enterprise of the Year
I had the honour to attend the Nelson Mandela Promise of Leadership conference in Johannesburg this week. It was an amazing event with inputs from leading figures from around the world. The Promise of Leadership conference wanted to give the leaders of South Africa the opportunity to focus on the leadership that can flow from Mandela’s legacy to take South Africa into the future. What have we learnt? What can we take forward? What the seeds that we can plant now to grow leadership trees of the future?
For me there were four key issues from the conference.
• The voice of the young pe..View Complete Post Monday 23rd March 2009, 08:53AustraliaBusy times as we found out a few days ago that we had been short-listed – alongside 200 other organizations – to help develop innovative approaches to tackling unemployment amongst some of the hardest to help communities in Australia. The Innovation Fund has some interesting similarities to ‘Right to Bid’ in the UK. Over coming days, our team in Australia and the extensive group of people in the UK who have spent time in Australia over the last two years sharing ideas and building our understanding of the market, will be waiting with baited breath for the outcome of .. Mark LovellView Complete Post Saturday 21st March 2009, 18:48Social EnterpriseSouth Africa Social Enterprise of the Year
I had the honour to attend the Nelson Mandela Promise of Leadership conference in Johannesburg this week. It was an amazing event with inputs from leading figures from around the world. The Promise of Leadership conference wanted to give the leaders of South Africa the opportunity to focus on the leadership that can flow from Mandela’s legacy to take South Africa into the future. What have we learnt? What can we take forward? What the seeds that we can plant now to grow leadership trees of the future?
For me there were four key issues from the c..View Complete Post Saturday 21st March 2009, 18:47Social EnterpriseSouth Africa Social Enterprise of the Year
I had the honour to attend the Nelson Mandela Promise of Leadership conference in Johannesburg this week. It was an amazing event with inputs from leading figures from around the world. The Promise of Leadership conference wanted to give the leaders of South Africa the opportunity to focus on the leadership that can flow from Mandela’s legacy to take South Africa into the future. What have we learnt? What can we take forward? What the seeds that we can plant now to grow leadership trees of the future?
For me there were four key issues from the c..View Complete Post Tuesday 17th March 2009, 21:07Recession Steals Children’s HeroesThere are, I believe some basic rules in life. Children like sweets and Disney films. Football teams should always win home games. Only grandmas like the brown meat on a turkey leg at Christmas, and top of my list is that children need and deserve heroes/heroines.
Every child needs a hero to look up to and that hero should be mum and/or dad. It’s not much to ask, being a child can be a lonely and vulnerable place to be. Yes there are lots of good things out there for children these days but without a hero it can seem like a very lonely and fearsome world. That’s why children have .. Roy NeweyView Complete Post Wednesday 11th March 2009, 10:15What next? (and how to find it)Just had a great couple of days - met loads of people - asked lots of bizarre questions and got some bizarre answers that helped me to think new things.
Let me explain...
Over twenty two years i have been building a company (A4e) that has a sole purpose to Improve people's lives. It is very unique and a strange beast - peopled with extraordinary people. As it gets bigger and bigger (probably 4000 people by the end of this year) - i have this dreaded fear that the imagination and creativity that created the company will get absorbed by the need for systems, consult.. Emma HarrisonView Complete Post Friday 6th March 2009, 18:23A major major breakthrough in this techy stuff - and a bit of a rant about its misusePhew phew phew - at last - i seem to have found a way forward in the virtual world. My regular blog readers will know that I have been searching for someone, anyone who can help me fulfill my vision of creating an on-line virtual community of people dedicated to improving people's lives - their own life and those of others.
My vision for this has many and multiple layers - many many functions and applications - but it all hinges around the power of the community to support its self. The power of the people who want to do good things for others finding eachother, sharing, supp.. Emma HarrisonView Complete Post |
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