its founder fazle abed died dec 2019- here we continue discussions on who might want to linkin his relay -coalition of 50 universities that live up to fazle abeds belief in first sustainability generations' youth particularly women who hold up half the sky- if you can help chat with me at chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk or +1 240 316 8157
typical dialogue feb 2021
[7:05 AM, 2/10/2021] Chris Macrae: my favorite read in january - A Better Resolution For The New Year: Set Attainable Goals ..Kim Starkey writing in forbes
Leadership Strategy
As the CEO of a grantmaking foundation that seeks to make a meaningful difference in the lives of the world’s poorest people by multiplying the impact of high-performing leaders, I have a strong professional interest in the science of setting and achieving goals. Indeed, it is a topic in which I have recently been immersed, in part through research that I have conducted with my colleague Maya DiRado Andrews, an Olympic gold medalist. It is also top-of-mind as our sector marks the one year anniversary of the death of Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, the founder of BRAC, who used rigorous goal setting to transform the organization he started into one of the largest, most effective nonprofits in the world.
While disciplined and effective goal setting is critical to our social sector even in “normal” times, it is especially critical during this extended pandemic period in which we face rapidly escalating needs; the necessity to reinvent delivery models; a challenging fundraising environment; and unprecedented levels of uncertainty. If ever there were a time to eschew overly-broad and open-ended ambitions like “end global poverty” in favor of realistic, measurable, and attainable goals that will truly help bring extreme poverty to an end, this is it. For guidance in so doing, I highly recommend the example of top athletes who daily push themselves to achieve more. Indeed, as my Olympian colleague and I have discovered, organizational leaders who excel at their jobs—including such high-performing social sector leaders as the late Sir Fazle—exhibit many of the same qualities that top athletes use to summon peak performance in their field.
[6:14 PM, 2/14/2021] Chris Macrae: the 20th annual report on social entrepreneurs by world economic forum had a special dedication to sir fazle abed; also i found that mit published a special davos issue inspired mainly by fazle abed back in 2008!- i have attached one page from a great fazle abed paper in this issue- if you would like pdfs of the whole issue or of 20th weforum report please say
[8:11 AM, 2/20/2021] Chris Macrae: i am not sure when annual report of brac 2019 was written but on page 15 learning partners mentioned are london school of economics and arizona state but as far as i can see no other academic institution- 2 questions come to mind - lse and arizona state are 2 institutions i study a lot- do you coordinate all connections or in the case of these 2 institutions who is the lead contact; the other question why these two? http://www.brac.net/downloads/BRAC-AR-2019e.pdf - from the outside the world of connections fazle abed made is getting very hard to understand- if i make a list of say the 20 living leaders -soros, schwab, gates. tech connectors of bkash -let alone asians etc - who still most continue what is uniquely urgent sdg 2020s of being aware of network …
[8:42 AM, 2/20/2021] Chris Macrae: something exciting is going on among new york board of brac usa https://bracusa.org/board-advisors/
[8:44 AM, 2/20/2021] Chris Macrae: you said you know lincoln chen's role in building brac health but there is more
[8:44 AM, 2/20/2021] Chris Macrae: for the first time the head since james grant the head of unicef is saying fazle abed inspires her
[8:49 AM, 2/20/2021] Chris Macrae: it turns out that while the working population at un hq has been cut 90% from real time assembles both fore and another lady gordon brown relies on for linking refugee education have been connecting at hi level; both have been promoting dubai december as biggest edu transormation summit ever; fore is all over schwab weforum and geneva's technologists getting them brainstom edutech
[8:51 AM, 2/20/2021] Chris Macrae: tell me if you want me to write up a report by email on what seems to be happening here- gordon brown also has an offce at nyu when he passes through new yourk; soros used to plant brac health people at columbia uni but they seem now to have all gone unless sabina knows better
[8:53 AM, 2/20/2021] Chris Macrae: so i think for the first time in 13 yearsguterres will be informed by edutech people in new your who are of abed motivation- unicef lpst control on education to french headquartered unesco so its about time education leaders connect top level un youth movements
[8:58 AM, 2/20/2021] Chris Macrae: https://www.unicef.org/media/experts/henrietta-h-fore
[9:02 AM, 2/20/2021] Chris Macrae: https://twitter.com/UNICEF/status/1363126262848516096
[9:03 AM, 2/20/2021] Chris Macrae: https://www.unicef.org/reimagine/five-opportunities-children-open-letter?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=open-letter#climate-change
[9:04 AM, 2/20/2021] Chris Macrae: https://www.unicef.org/child-rights-convention/open-letter-to-worlds-children
[12:40 PM, 2/20/2021] Chris Macrae: i have linkedin to one of the directors of the dubai education summit linked to uae expo which both fore and brown are converging on https://www.linkedin.com/in/annina-mattsson-62abb6/ -if in due course you have an opening move towards dubai please say
[12:42 PM, 2/20/2021] Vincent Brac: Oh, I’m actually in Dubai now, going back to Dhaka in a few hours
[12:46 PM, 2/20/2021] Chris Macrae: small world- i do a weekly zoom with a middle east property developer -way out of my league but we used to connect people in london in 2005-10 for yunus - he intends to search out people in dubai on his next trip probably june-
[12:48 PM, 2/20/2021] Vincent Brac: Yes what a small world
[12:53 PM, 2/20/2021] Chris Macrae: one of my fathers best friends sir keith peters https://www.linkedin.com/in/sir-keith-peters-8a33b8206/ used to head royal society of medicine after helping cambridge map the genome- he had told me he was too old to do new stuff 3 years ago but he suddenly reappeared on linkedin a week ago- i dont know if he's helping with vaccine or something else- say if at some stage you want me to send linked in mail between you,
[12:57 PM, 2/20/2021] Vincent Brac: Ok thanks