Your parents and teachers may have told you “just do the right thing” when you were younger. But it turns out that the real world is complicated and messy. Just planning to be “good” is not good enough. Authors in a recent Harvard Business Review article* say that we all need to develop our “Moral … Continue reading about Develop Your Ethical Vigilance
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The Power of Goals
Learn to increase your effectiveness by setting goals as outcomes, not activities. Discover the seven steps to higher levels of performance, fulfillment, and satisfaction. For free e-book click here.
Strategy
A New Strategy Approach
Last week I gave the students in my graduate Nonprofit Strategy course their midterm in which I asked them to invent their own strategic planning … Continue reading about A New Strategy Approach
Leading Change Pitfalls
Leading Change is one of the most challenging tasks of top leaders. You may have memorized Kotter’s eight steps and have a big guiding … Continue reading about Leading Change Pitfalls
Leadership
Retaining Your Best Talent
The continued low employment rate means that even some of your talented team members who are not looking to leave, could get recruited away. This is the topic of a recent article* in The Wall Street Journal with … Continue reading about Retaining Your Best Talent
Leadership Lessons from Star Wars
The author, dressed as Rey for Halloween alongside two Jedis and an R2D2 The final movie in the Star Wars saga, the Rise of Skywalker, is coming out soon. Regardless of your feelings on the sequels, prequels, or … Continue reading about Leadership Lessons from Star Wars
Teamwork
Coaching Your Team
In the olden days . . . once you were identified as being great at what you did you were made a manager. You taught others how to do it right – just like you did. It was a command and control world. As it turns … Continue reading about Coaching Your Team
Six Collaboration Tools
We know that improved collaboration among people in an organization can increase innovation and productivity. But making that happen has proved challenging for most. But there is hope: “Being receptive to the … Continue reading about Six Collaboration Tools