4 Articles match "Laos","Membership"

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Wednesday, April 16, 2008
quot;[40] Robert Theobald illustrates "servant" leadership with a quote from Lao Tsu: "When the leader leads well, the people say they did it themselves."[41] 47] Building Collaborative Communities In "Bowling Alone: Americas Declining Social Capital," one of the most oft-cited articles in recent memory, Robert Putnam observes that membership in associations — from labor unions and womens groups to sports leagues and parent-teacher associations — has been on a steady decline over the last decade or two.
 
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quot;[40] Robert Theobald illustrates "servant" leadership with a quote from Lao Tsu: "When the leader leads well, the people say they did it themselves."[41] 47] Building Collaborative Communities In "Bowling Alone: Americas Declining Social Capital," one of the most oft-cited articles in recent memory, Robert Putnam observes that membership in associations — from labor unions and womens groups to sports leagues and parent-teacher associations — has been on a steady decline over the last decade or two.
The article [link] talks about a pilot to create two CoPs with members from CARE offices in India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Sri Lanka. In my own experience, it is difficult to work with a concept of 'voluntary' membership in CoPs in development organisations with distributed offices if the CoP relies on intense workshops as there will issues of budgets, travel approval, etc. I worked with CARE from 94-97 in Mali, first in Dire, then in Macina, both location at the border of the river Niger. I
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