Dream or Delusion?
There is a fine line between having a big dream and being delusional about your goal. I connect with all types of people who have a huge vision but no realistic action plans in place. It makes me...
View ArticleStop Changing the Plan
For a lot of nonprofit leaders, the reason they don’t ever feel like they’re accomplishing their goals is because they constantly change their strategy mid-execution. If strategy fulfilment is...
View ArticleProactive vs Reactive
Any leader would admit that the process of strategic planning is demanding and frustrating. When your schedule is already full of to-do items and there is an endless line-up of people demanding your...
View ArticleWhen you need to call an audible…
How do you respond when circumstances change and you are forced to quickly respond and lead your organization away from plan “A” and towards a new plan? Life doesn’t always work the way we think it...
View ArticleAre you focused on your organization’s output or its outcome?
I’m reading one of the most incredible nonprofit success books that I’ve ever read, The Non Nonprofit: For-Profit Thinking for Nonprofit Success by Steve Rothschild. In the book, the author shares...
View ArticleWhat is strategy, really?
In reading an article by Paul Michelman in the Harvard Business Review titled Morning Advantage: How Leaders Get Their Strategic Groove Back I came across this amazing quote that I wanted to expand...
View ArticleAre you too busy keeping up to shape up?
Are you like most EDs with too much to do and too little time to do it in? Do you know that being stuck in the day-to-day operations of your organization is not a good long-term strategy but don’t know...
View ArticleProfessional performers don’t require immediate compensation
“Do you think you could have the good without the evil? Did you think you could have the joy without the sorrow?” ~ David Grayson, professor and author Most people are fully engaged in microwave...
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