Conversation Agent - Valeria Maltoni

Why How we Measure Impact is, Mostly, Wrong

When Clayton Christensen took the podium to give the commencement speech at Western Governor University in 2017, he told students that companies that fail have a small view of humankind. In their attempt to emulate successful companies, he explained, people forget that they all started with solving a small problem. Then he talked about a similar idea, this time using numbers. Because we have limited minds, he explained, we aggregate the world in a hierarchical way, with the people who aspire to bigger numbers higher up in companies. His theory, which he introduced in the Harvard Business Review in 1995,... Read more →

Everyone Has a Story

A 24-year old boy seeing out from the train shouted: “Dad, look the trees are going behind!” Dad smiled as a group of young people sitting nearby whispered snide remarks about the 24-year old's childish behavior. Suddenly, the young man exclaimed again: “Dad, look the clouds are running with us!” The group couldn't resist anymore and they said to the father: “Take your son to a good doctor, why don't you?” The father smiled and said: “I did. We're coming back from the hospital now. My son was blind from birth, he just got his sight today.” How would you... Read more →