Written By Heather McLeod Grant & Leslie R. Crutchfield
Published: Fall 2007 by Stanford Social Innovation Review
http://www.ssireview.org/articles/creating_high_impact

Written by: Erik Simanis and Stuart Hart
Published in 2008 by Cornell University 
http://www.bop-protocol.org/docs/BoPProtocol2ndEdition2008.pdf

By Norm Brodsky
Published: Aug 1, 2000, Inc. magazine
http://www.inc.com/magazine/20000701/19563.html

Written by By William Foster
Published: Fall 2008 by Stanford Social Innovation Review
http://www.ssireview.org/articles/entry/money_to_grow_on/

By Sean Stannard-Stockton
Published: June 25, 2008, Stanford Social Innovation Review
http://www.ssireview.org/opinion/entry/

Written by By Thomas L. Friedman
Published: January 23, 2010 by The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/opinion/24friedman.html

Growth in organizations requires growth in their leaders.  Good leaders learn to make the hard transition from player to coach – doer to teacher of doers. [more]

Editor's Note: Yes, it's no coincidence that I'm sharing this article the same month I'm featuring "Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" on the bookshelf. Meacham reminds us at the end of his article that mankind continues to trend toward more liberty, not less, and that a totalitarian appraoch led by Nazis in the Third Reich, Christians in the Crusades or Muslims in the current Jihad, will pass in time. [more]

Published: January 03, 2007 in Knowledge@W.P. Carey
http://knowledge.wpcarey.asu.edu/article.cfm?articleid=1352

Editor's Note: This article is fairly broad and yet covers difficult development issues, such as corruption, head on. My experience is not only that Africa is 52 distinctly different countries but also that each country in Africa is distinctly different among its states and tribes. Most developing economies are, as stated, resource rich, bi-polar demographically and are completely misunderstood by we who might help the most. I especially like the idea here that to some degree, we are looking at our own economy in the 1950's, one that needs focus on the "critical middle." [more]