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hange is easy to describe on paper. A new structure.A new strategy.A new team.A new way of working. But organizations are not pieces of paper. They...

After more than three decades working with the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement across Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific, people sometimes...

Every time I began a new humanitarian mission, I arrived with the same things: a contract, a job title, and years of experience.My organization had trusted...

Humanitarian assignments are temporary. We arrive, receive a title, take responsibility for a team or an operation, work for a few months or a few years,...

Diplomacy is often associated with ambassadors, foreign ministries, and negotiating tables. But I learned diplomacy somewhere very different. I learned...

Part 1: When Emergency Response Must Become Recovery Four months after Super Typhoon Haiyan struck the Philippines, I arrived in a country that was no...

Integrity does not begin when we become managers or leaders. I believe it begins much earlier, in our families, in the values we learn from our parents,...