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• Melinda French Gates: What nonprofits can learn from Coca Cola
  In this 16:29 minute TED talk Melinda Gates poses the question, "Why can't governments get things to villages that they want the way Coke does?"  The key is to do three things.  Use real time data to measure progress for double-loop learning.  Tap into local talent.  Use marketing techniques that speak to the people's aspirations to educate them about how to use sanitation techniques to eradicate disease.
   
• Peter Haas: Haiti's disaster of engineering
  Peter Hass questions why the buildings failed during the hurricane in Haiti in this 8:30 minute TED talk.  Buildings were being rebuilt using the same methods used in the old buildings. The reason old buildings failed was because the buildings were not built to withstand hurricanes.  AIDG identified the problem and is helping builders rebuild quality buildings by reaching out to 40,000 masons on the ground to teach them new engineering practices.
   
• Phillip K. Howard:  Four ways to fix a broken legal system
  In this 18:22 minute TED talk this attorney argues that lawsuits are out of control.  The law is too random and too detailed.  We are drowning in laws.  He proposed four ways to fix and restore trust in our legal system.
   
•  "No Fear: A Whistleblower's Triumph Over Corruption and Retaliation at the EPA"
  This 1.5 hour Book TV Program on C-Span 2 is an interview with Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, author of a book about her experience with reporting corruption, subsequent retaliation against her as an EPA employee and her activism on behalf of change in federal organizations. Her lawsuit and proactive formation of the No FEAR Coalition resulted in passage of the Notification of Federal Employees Antidiscrimination and Retaliation Act in 2002.
   
• Change Management or Change Leadership? 
  John Kotter discusses the difference between "change management" and "change leadership," and whether it's just a matter of semantics in this 5:04 video. These terms are not interchangeable. The distinction between the two is actually quite significant. Change management, which is the term most everyone uses, refers to a set of basic tools or structures intended to keep any change effort under control. The goal is often to minimize the distractions and impacts of the change. Change leadership, on the other hand, concerns the driving forces, visions and processes that fuel large-scale transformation.