Our full time production workers are a tough bunch.  Most come from disadvantaged backgrounds including widows and former prostitution groups.  Not only that, but they spend most of the work day doing manual labor (also known as man’s work in Uganda). One of our workers, let’s call her Jane, is the toughest of them all.  [...]

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An MBA can be valuable to your career, but it can also help you Impact the world. In 2010, I traveled with my wife who is a health professional to South Africa to volunteer in an orphanage.  I knew she’d be in high demand with her healing skills, but I had no idea how to [...]

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Ethiopia seems more like an island than a landlocked African country.  It is a place all its own.  The people look and talk different and seem unaware of what is going on in the rest of the continent.  There are not even roads to its largest neighbors.  The country has a fascinating history of Italian [...]

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It’s a false dichotomy.  In other words, you can do both. In fact, the more money you make, the more impact you can have (good or bad). The most effective way to make a difference isn’t to depend on others to help you.  Being helped isn’t bad, but depending on it is. The way to [...]

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