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
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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
Lean Impact: Guiding Principles
Lean Impact: How to Innovate for Radically Greater Social Good is a new book by Ann Mei Chang and I am pleased to highly recommend it. The book takes general concepts from The Lean Startup, by Eric Ries, and applies them to the social sector. Here are the three core guiding principles of the book: *Think Big. “Be audacious in the difference you aspire to make, basing … [Read more...] about Lean Impact: Guiding Principles
Nonprofits, Innovation, & Lean Startups
You want to drive innovation throughout your nonprofit, but you don’t think you have the time or money to try new things. You would benefit from learning about the “Lean Startup” method – which is the current model that businesses use to develop new products and entrepreneurs use to start new companies. Here are some of the key ideas of Lean Startup that apply to … [Read more...] about Nonprofits, Innovation, & Lean Startups