I’m pleased to share the fourth podcast in this blog’s ongoing series on updating nonprofit business models, featuring Rob Paterkiewicz, Executive...
CEO Rob Paterkiewicz on Updating Selected Independent Funeral Homes’ Business Model
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The Miami Lighthouse Partners With the Miami Dade County Schools in the Pre-K Arena
Virginia Jacko and I tell her incredible true story in our book The Blind Visionary (www.GovernanceEdge.com): losing her eyesight while serving as...
The Miami Lighthouse: An Innovation Engine on CEO Virginia Jacko’s Watch
Virginia Jacko and I tell her incredible true story in our book The Blind Visionary (www.GovernanceEdge.com): losing her eyesight while serving as...
Buzzer Management: Key to Innovation
“This feels wrong in so many ways. It feels reckless, careless and selfish. Of course we’re supposed to wait until we’re sure before we buzz. But...
That Vision Thing
You’ll recall that the last article posted at this blog discusses core values – serving as a prelude to the podcast that Lynne Thomas Gordon and...
About Your Core Values Statement: A Powerful Leadership Tool
Since two extraordinary nonprofit leaders – Lynne Thomas Gordon and Michelle Mason – will be recording a podcast for this blog on the recently...
Vision: Your Board’s Driver of Innovation and Change
A few months ago I sat in on a meeting of the board planning committee of a nonprofit economic development corporation. We were running through an...
Another Insidious Foe: That Strategic Planning is a Powerful Innovation Tool
I tell the following true story in my book Changing By Design (Josey-Bass): Almost thirty years ago, when I was serving as budget officer of a state...
Fostering Innovative CEO Leadership: a Conversation With Bob Eckardt
Whenever you come across a nonprofit organization that is thriving and growing in these rapidly changing, challenging times, you’re virtually...
Ownership: the Breakfast of Change Champions
I sat in on a really consequential meeting a little over a year ago. The board planning and development committee of a state professional...