Dan was my first boss as a newly minted college graduate. He invited me to work with him in a nonprofit organization that he and a group of friends started several years earlier. Dan was the Executive Director of Society’s Assets, Inc. While I only worked with
Read more →The core question that faces the leaders of all nonprofit organizations is this: What is more important — Mission or Performance? This seems like a simple question. However, when you begin to seek the answer, you realize that this is a complex question. No matter choice you
Read more →It is the responsibility of the leader to define reality. — Max De Pree When I first came across this statement in Max De Pree’s book Leadership as an Art, I thought he was speaking to the CEO and reminding him or her that to lead is
Read more →Jeff Hannah of Touchstone Executive Development interviewed me on his internet radio/video show called Leadership Cocktail. Over the course of the hour we explored topics in nonprofit leadership, the evolving role of the board of directors, creating a partnership between the board and the CEO, and developing
Read more →The Board Chair is the leader of the Nonprofit Board of Directors. In a Nonprofit Board Forum discussion on LinkedIn, the above statement was more of a question than a description of best practice in governance. The discussion reflected the ambivalence in the nonprofit sector on the
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