Category: Leadership
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Scary Nonprofit Quotes of 2022
Welcome to the 2nd annual edition of Scary Nonprofit Quotes. I authored the original Scary Quotes edition in 2021 as Halloween approached, documenting examples of some of the scariest things…
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Board members in management roles
A challenge unstaffed nonprofits face is that board members necessarily take on roles that are not board governance. These other roles are hard to categorize with a singular term. They…
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Slowing down to speed up
A few years back, somebody used the phrase “slow down to speed up†in my presence and it really resonated. Doing some quick google searches, I found dozens of articles…
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Thankful nonprofit quotes
About My Work, Board Development, Consulting, Fundraising, Human Resources, Leadership, Strategic Planning, VolunteersLast month, in the spirit of Halloween, I shared the scariest things I’ve heard uttered by nonprofit leaders. As a counterpoint, this month I offer up some “thankful†comments about…
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Scary nonprofit quotes
In honor of Halloween 2021, here are the the scariest things I’ve heard from nonprofit leaders. These are paraphrases as I wasn’t writing them down at the time. If you…
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Facilitating hybrid meetings
Good facilitation is a core part of my work. Since I had already begun facilitating many meetings online pre-pandemic, the switchover to all virtual meetings for the last 16 months…
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Five ideas for staying focused as an executive
Quite a few times in my years as a consultant, I’ve encountered Executive Directors who accomplish tasks very effectively. Their writing is cogent. Documents they produce are always well-formatted. They…
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The bricklayer parable and nonprofits
An Executive Director working for a former client recently invited me out to have lunch at a park and then go kayak on the river with her. We spent most…
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Ticket to Ride and nonprofit leadership
One of my pandemic “weaknesses†has been the amount of time I’ve spent playing Ticket to Ride – the online version. For those not familiar with the game, you can…
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Naive optimism
I recently was speaking with Amanda Caffall, who helped start and currently leads the Commons Law Center, a relatively new nonprofit. The Center is clearly thriving, even with the challenges…