Would you like to make better decisions? Have healthier relationships with co-workers, family, and friends? Lower your stress and blood pressure? Remain more focused in this very distracting world we navigate each day? If you answered “yes” to any of these, then I encourage you to check out Laurie Cameron’s book, The Mindful Day. Laurie is a former consultant … [Read more...] about Have a Mindful Day
Decision Making
Lean Impact: Relentlessly Seek Impact
This is the final installation of three blogs on the excellent new book by Ann Mei Chang, Lean Impact: How to Innovate for Radically Greater Social Good, which I highly recommend. Chang’s three core guiding principles in the book are Think Big, Start Small, and Relentlessly Seek Impact – which is today’s focus. Many nonprofit organizations are born because the founders … [Read more...] about Lean Impact: Relentlessly Seek Impact
Lean Impact: The Value of Starting Small
This is the second installation of three blogs on the great new book by Ann Mei Chang, Lean Impact: How to Innovate for Radically Greater Social Good, which I highly recommend. Chang’s three core guiding principles in the book are Think Big, Start Small, and Relentlessly Seek Impact. Today we are focusing on Start Small. Once you Think Big about the difference you want … [Read more...] about Lean Impact: The Value of Starting Small
Creating an Ethical Culture
Few people spend their lives purposing thinking about how they can violate the law and/or ethical standards for their own gain. Yet - well-meaning and well-informed people are ethically malleable; they can end up making lapses in judgement. And this is not just confined to the business world. Nonprofit leaders are certainly subject to these breakdowns in … [Read more...] about Creating an Ethical Culture
The Importance of All Stakeholders
You might think that only the “senior” people in your organization feel like they have a “stake” in its current operations and future. You would be wrong. I have heard all of the excuses. “They don’t know enough about the substance of the issues to provide input.” “They don’t really care.” “We already know what they think.” Wrong, Wrong, and Wrong. There are … [Read more...] about The Importance of All Stakeholders