The Swachh Bharat campaign of 1863. On 29 June 1877, as much of south and south-western India were being ravaged by a terrible famine that would ultimately kill millions, a letter to the editor was published in The Illustrated London News. The letter talked about the situation of irrigation in the Madras Presidency in great detail. “... first let us observe that there are four districts at this time which ought to have been like the other 12, overwhelmed by this terrible calamity, but three of which are not only free from famine themselves, but are in the highest state of prosperity, having a large surplus to supply the other districts; and the fourth, though not entirely relieved from famine, yet has a very considerable supply of grain.”
The reason for this, the letter writer said, were government irrigation works. “The three districts, Tanjore, Godavari and Kistnah, instead of adding five millions more to starve, are pouring into the starving districts hundreds of thousands of tonnes of food.” “Nightingale’s efforts,” I. The Black Swans Circling P&G - Grant McCracken. If you stand in the plaza of P&G's Cincinnati headquarters and look up, you will see something circling. Birds. Locals say they've been gathering for the last several years now. They're hard to see. And really who cares. Those birds are Black Swans . How do I know A.G. 1. How the tables turn. P&G is the captive of its own models, addicted to the billion-dollar brand. 2. 3. 4. Upward mobility isn't what it used to be. 5. It's not as if P&G couldn't ever see these black swans. The good news is that black swans, if you can grasp them, turn into opportunities for category and product innovation.
Roselinde Torres: What it takes to be a great leader | Talk Video. Leaders everywhere: A conversation with Gary Hamel. The latest M-Prize challenge, cosponsored by Gary Hamel’s Management Innovation eXchange (MIX), Harvard Business Review , and McKinsey, asks managers to submit examples of how their organizations are empowering and training individuals to lead even when they lack formal authority. In this video, Professor Hamel discusses why he believes it is vital for companies to “syndicate the work of leadership” across the organization, to redistribute power, and to change the role of the top team. This interview was conducted by McKinsey Publishing’s Simon London. What follows is an edited transcript of Hamel’s remarks. To learn more about the Leaders Everywhere challenge, please visit the Management Innovation eXchange Web site . Interview transcript Syndicating the work of leadership The Management Innovation eXchange is the world’s first open-innovation platform, where we’re trying to elicit bleeding-edge practices in the world of management and organization and leadership.
Where do we experiment? LKY's policy implications. Colonialism. 1. Definition and Outline Colonialism is not a modern phenomenon. World history is full of examples of one society gradually expanding by incorporating adjacent territory and settling its people on newly conquered territory. The ancient Greeks set up colonies as did the Romans, the Moors, and the Ottomans, to name just a few of the most famous examples. Colonialism, then, is not restricted to a specific time or place. Nevertheless, in the sixteenth century, colonialism changed decisively because of technological developments in navigation that began to connect more remote parts of the world. Fast sailing ships made it possible to reach distant ports and to sustain close ties between the center and colonies. The difficulty of defining colonialism stems from the fact that the term is often used as a synonym for imperialism. The confusion about the meaning of the term imperialism reflects the way that the concept has changed over time. 2. 3. 4.