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Steve Jobs’ 1985 Response to Andrew Ross Sorkin – Forbes
Steve Jobs answers the critics who question his lack of giving… in 1985. Interestingly, 25 years ago, Jobs cites the difficulty in measuring philanthropic impact as a key issue for him.
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Bridge Span: Don’t Let Conventional Measurement Wisdom Fragment Your Impact
Matthew Forti looks at how short term focused impact measurement misses whether organizations are having true impact. The business world notoriously focuses too much on short term measures (because they are easy to measure). Cloaking for-profit or nonprofit decision making in reams of short term data can make people feel “data-driven”, but this sort of data can be a security blanket rather than real knowledge.
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