Category: Leadership
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Scary Nonprofit Quotes 2025
October 31, 2025 For the last few years (with one exception), I’ve taken time to compile some of the scariest nonprofit quotes I’ve heard in the last year and sharing…
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Wingspan lessons for nonprofit leaders
Four years ago, I wrote about Ticket to Ride, a board game I had become “addicted to†during the pandemic. My article identified lessons from playing the game that could…
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Three quadrant tools for being strategic
About a decade ago, I posted a blog that suggested how to apply a matrix approach in organizational decision-making. The blog examined a time-management technique originally generated by Stephen Covey…
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Five Lessons for Effective Staff Management
Business author Jim Collins, in his monograph Good to Great and the Social Sectors identified getting the “right people on the bus†as a core attribute of highly functioning nonprofits.…
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Short-term planning and project management 101
It’s important to be systematic and not use a haphazard approach when it comes to tracking to-dos and managing projects as a nonprofit leader.
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Staying Grounded in Dangerous Times #2
February 28, 2025 I wrote my last email less than a week into our current wannabe dictator’s Term. Now I can say: one month down, 47 to go. Sigh.  Last…
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The Leadership + Plan + Team formula
One of the lessons I took away from the last few years is what I’ve come to think of as the Leadership + Plan + Team formula. Organizations lacking any…
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Don’t drop the glass balls
In managing yourself and staff, think of your tasks as balls juggling and focus on making sure you don’t drop the glass ones.
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Scary Nonprofit Quotes 2024
Welcome to the 3rd not-quite annual edition of Scary Nonprofit Quotes. I authored the original edition in 2021 as Halloween approached and a follow-up in 2022. After a one-year hiatus,…
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Why volunteers before how volunteers
Advocacy, Board Development, Human Resources, Leadership, Strategic Planning, Uncategorized, VolunteersWith a few exceptions, the vast majority of nonprofits with which I’ve worked have viewed volunteers as both an important resource and strategy. Almost always, they immediately get to the…