About
Wendy Woods reveals the powerful impact of collective cooperation in the social sector. Using examples of different NGOs, each one working independently to eradicate malaria, she explains how an individualistic approach reduced their efforts and resulted in fatal inefficiencies -- and what happened when they finally aligned their overall mission.
The talk
Credits and licence
- Institution
- TED
- Department
- TED@BCG San Francisco
- Speaker
- Wendy Woods
- Year
- 2013
- Level
- For everyone
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Medicine and health, Business and management
- Source
- TED
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
- Attribution
- TED Talks are licensed by TED under Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 International and are shown here in TED's own player, as TED's usage policy asks.
- Who can watch
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