When planning your career, have a long-run dream and a short-run plan. But be prepared to alter your plan.

Dream Long, Plan Short

Don’t try to map out your entire career from the get-go, advises Sandberg. If she had done so, she would have missed the opportunities at Google and Facebook altogether. After all, when she graduated from Harvard, the internet didn’t exist.

“If you try to plan out your career, it’s going to be boring. You’re going to miss all the good stuff, because all the good stuff hasn’t been invented yet,” says Sandberg. “You want to have a really long-run dream and you want to have a short-run plan. And that short-run plan, it’s not about what you accomplish, especially in the early days. It’s about what you help other people accomplish and about what you learn. You invest in yourself. You invest in the success of your teams.” Continue reading →

Yale University and Peking University are inviting submissions for the 2017 Yale Africa-China Conference. Our objective is to facilitate exchange and innovation among African, Chinese and international thought leaders on Africa-China relations. The conference will take place in conjunction with the 2017 Beijing Forum, hosted by Peking University. The conference papers will be eligible for consideration in a planned journal special issue on Sino-African Development Cooperation, edited by the program chairs. Need-based travel support will be available, along with logistical and visa application support.

Accepted conference participants will be invited to attend the 2017 Beijing Forum, November 3rd, 2017 through November 5th, 2017 and a follow-on workshop on “New Frontiers in Africa-China Relations” at the Yale Beijing Center on November 6, 2017. Both parts of the conference will bring together experts and practitioners from government, business, civil society and academia. Continue reading →

One third of the world’s 1.8 billion young people are currently neither in education nor employment. Yet, only 30% of youth employment programs are successful – according to the World Bank (here and here).  In the face of a global youth employment crisis there is a dearth of effective solutions.

The Global Center for Youth Employment, in partnership with the Ford Foundation and 1776 will host a 2-day Ideathon to source, co-design, and invest in innovative collective impact solutions to youth employment.  While breakthrough ideas are expected, we also value the ability to build on existing opportunities and proven strategies. $250,000 in funding and the collective power of the Center’s members is up for grabs.

• Submit an expression of interest by April 25 to be selected to pitch an idea. Submission instructions and selection criteria can be found here.