Just by thinking in terms of this vision, new ideas for supporting end-users may occur to you.

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On the ground, it means seeking out and supporting some of the most innovative ideas and people to develop a new kind of impact, an impact whose form may change very quickly as conditions change around them.

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Through fostering smart ideas, mobilizing smart people and supporting the co-creation of smart ventures with community leaders, George Roter has been able to transform EWB into an organization capable of producing sustainable system-changing solutions.

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And finally, we launched a joint initiative to exchange the best ideas and practices when it comes to supporting our veterans and our military families.

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We also have a tendency to blurt out ideas out of excitement without taking just one more step to formulate a thought or supporting bullets.

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It focused on eight different skill areas to measure leadership capability: initiating activity and deciding, supporting and cooperating, interacting with and presenting to others, analyzing and interpreting data, creating and conceptualizing ideas, organizing and executing plans, adapting and coping with others, and finally, performing and achieving.

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