Who Are You Not To Scale? 3 Lessons From Peace First

Ashoka, Contributor, Forbes
Fri, 04/05/2013 - 8:21am

One day, Eric Dawson, co-founder of Peace First (formerly known as Peace Games), got a phone call from a woman in Minnesota. She wanted to use some of Dawson's curriculum materials to shape lesson plans on cooperation and conflict resolution in her school district. Eric responded that the Peace First materials weren't quite ready to share, as the organization wasn't yet ready to scale.

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