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Paz-Cedillos: We can’t change the world without changing how we lead
Last week, I sat in a Stanford classroom with nonprofit leaders from Brazil, Australia, Canada, Morocco and the U.S. Sixty of us gathered from around the world, each facing different realities but asking the same questions: How do we lead through dysfunction? How do we design for lasting change? And, most critically, how do we keep going when the systems we work within are breaking beneath us? Stanford’s Executive Program for Nonprofit Leaders offered us a simple but sobering truth: If we want to change the world, we must first change how we lead our organizations. That may sound obvious,...
