Advocacy/Policy Change, Guest Blogs, Organizational Assessments, Organizational Culture, Social Impact Architects, Strategic Planning
Last week, on October 24, we celebrated United Nations Day, marking the historic moment when countries united after World War II to promote peace, security and cooperation. Since then, the UN has continued to bring nations together around many other key priorities,...
Grow, Guest Blogs, Lead, Organizational Culture, Social Impact Architects, Strategic Planning
Sometimes when you meet someone, you just click. A few years ago, while teaching for the Executive Nonprofit Leadership certificate program at Duke University, I met Amy Gearhart, a student in my class. She had recently made a career shift. After serving 30 years as a...
Guest Blogs, Human Resources, Lead, Strategic Planning
Let’s be honest. As employers, hiring is probably one of our least favorite activities. It’s time-consuming, challenging and takes us away from working toward our mission. But, to paraphrase Jim Collins in his modern-day business classic, Good to Great, what separates...
Annual Traditions, Business Planning, Collaborate, Communicate, Fundraising, Grow, Organizational Assessments, Social Impact Architects, Strategic Planning, Summer Reading
As we hit the midpoint of the year, a new trend for for-profit and nonprofit leaders is to review their strategic and operational goals and make New Half-Year’s resolutions, recommitting to old goals and resolving to achieve new ones. Summer is a great time for...
Business Planning, Grow, Growth/Scaling Plans, Organizational Assessments, Social Impact Architects, Strategic Planning
Today is the 80th anniversary of D-Day – the day when more than 160,000 Allied forces landed in Normandy, France, as part of the largest air, land and sea invasion ever executed. The goal of the mission was to liberate Nazi-occupied France, and more than 9,000 Allied...
Business Planning, Grow, Strategic Planning
One of my favorite management gurus was former CEO of GE Jack Welch. On my bookshelf is my well-worn copy of Winning. I bought this book before business school, and it gave me many gems that I used there and during my time at the American Heart Association. My...