Peace builders often spend a lot of time trying to shift the worldviews, shape the mindsets, and break the frames of clients, systems, and processes in the world. This is reflected in much of their marketing materials, business development practices, and their overall approaches to sharing information in the world Read more…
If you’re building a peace project, it’s important to understand what you’re creating in the product phase, so that you understand what you’re selling. Many creators misunderstand the idea of a minimal viable product. The definition, created by the writer Eric Ries (he of Lean Start-Up fame), is as follows: Read more…
Think for a moment about product packaging: Everything that we buy, from dish soap to artesian water, comes in some type of package. Being the rational consumers that we are, we often tell ourselves that the shape of the container, the way that the container is delivered to us, or Read more…
What are the edges? Where can I make changes? Is better marketing going to solve my product problem? Have I been listening to my clients? How do I ask the right questions? In a crowded peace building marketplace, where consumers are often talked at from the perspective of late-stage interventions, Read more…
Implementation, coaching, mentoring, and supporting through experiences matters more to adult learning in a corporate setting, than sitting in a room for four hours listening to a facilitator. The drop-off in retention after such an experience is 50% after participants leave the room, and without immediate changes, immediate implementation of Read more…
Most MBA program curriculums educate students in the parts of managing, analyzing, and operating an organization that organizations have deemed important: accounting, finance, managerial economics, operations, strategy, and information technology. All of these are great areas of focus, as well as areas of specialization, but with 4,000 programs at 454 Read more…
You work in a human resources capacity in an organization and your boss had never shown an interest in progressively resolving the consistent arguments, disputes, disagreements that lead to creating and developing a toxic workplace culture. And you—as the human resource professional—spend days, weeks, months and even years addressing these Read more…
When people are searching for ways to resolve the conflicts in their lives, their workplaces, and even in their neighborhoods, they’re using Google to do it. They’re reading blog content from the Huffington Post, watching videos on YouTube and talking to their friends and neighbors about the conflict, how to Read more…
There are three questions that the savvy peace builder should focus on when developing a marketing plan: Whom do we serve? This question can be answered with surveys and other formal and informal means. The question is not focused on the peace builder’s skill sets and where they’re comfortable. Instead Read more…
There are three hard parts to launching any peace building project: The first hard part is attaining technical knowledge (i.e. getting a degree, getting experience, phoning a friend, etc.). When launching a peace building project, the savvy peace builder often doesn’t think too hard about the first part. In peace building fields from Read more…