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America is so full of hyperbole. “New and Improved,” “Award Winning,” and “The Critics Are Raving About…” flood our inboxes and our ...
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Be it business, life, love or society, sometimes great events don’t change everything but do reveal how everything has already changed. I ...
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Decades of "reform" accompanied by piles of money have failed to improve education. Can entrepreneurs outside the system make it work? In ...
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The worst way to raise money is by holding a fundraising event. The occasion should be about building our tribe, not our ...
Read More Strategic Planning Must Die – Time To Go FAST
We need it, but we hate it. What if we replaced the strategic planning process with a model which develops strategic thinking? ...
Read More What Everyone Gets Wrong About Independence Day
You think you're celebrating the birth of a country, but that's not the real story. Independence Day is more... much, much more. ...
Read More Work From Home: The Future
Work From Home:? We have news: some good news, some bad about work hours, productivity, networking, communication. What does this mean for ...
Read More Joe Paterno And The Unfinished Business at Penn State
The university and the surrounding community must come to grips with an idol culture that elevated then sunk the reputation of Joe ...
Read More Doing The Minimum Wage
An older man standing by the road holding a cardboard sign: labor $6.00/hr. Who would advertise well below the official minimum wage? Intrigued, ...
Read More Closing Your Nonprofit: Is It Time?
If you think launching was hard work, try closing your nonprofit. The hardest part of all might be asking the BIG question. ...
Read More Recruiting Great Board Members
Truly transformative leaders don’t fall from the sky. Recruiting great board members involves dentification, nurturing and orientation. Who sits on your board? ...
Read More Why Our Service Clubs Are Dying
Service clubs make our communities stronger, more interesting, and more engaging. So why are they dying? What can we do about it? ...
Read More Hiring Nonprofit Staff: Let’s Get It Right
We get praise for hiring the right people. We can get fired for hiring the wrong ones. We must get it right. ...
Read More We Only Get One Chance To Make A First Impression
We only get one chance to make a first impression. Think of the ultimate elevator pitch request: ‘Describe yourself to me in ...
Read More It’s The Most Wonderful Week Of The Year (for fundraising)
It was not the most wonderful time of the year for me. A bad break up plus a few other personal upsets ...
Read More Oberlin College Ignores The First Rule Of Holes
Oberlin College loses in court. Their response is to double down. Will this ultimately accelerate the decline in enrollment at this small ...
Read More Stay On Top Of These Four Trends
We can say. “Our growth will be x% in 2019, but the truth is we can’t control many of the factors that ...
Read More Do you FOBO? The Fear Of Becoming Obsolete
Just as the horse had no comprehension it was being rendered useless, some employees may refuse to acknowledge they're headed towards irrelevancy. ...
Read More Steve Jobs Is Not Jesus Christ, Warren Buffet Not Moses
It’s easy to believe that Warren Buffet parts the Red Sea on a daily basis or that Steve Jobs‘ tomb lies empty ...
Read More The Art Of Accepting How Fragile Your Life Is
A wise gentleman once told me that anyone can look back at their time to identify moments where mere seconds and inches ...
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