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Weekly inspiration for building your nonprofit leadership skills.

Manage Your Shortcomings

It’s human nature to focus on what we do well and then to ignore or postpone working on what does not come as naturally. A good manager must fight that instinct, understand what key leadership or mana

Create Accountability, Not Victims

As individuals and organizations transition to a New Normal, many of us are wondering what our culture will be or what it should be. Effective decision making is core for every organization. Throughou

Planning for Possibilities

It's 2021 and we need to understand why planning for possibilities is important. What a difference a month makes! After too long in darkness, we’ve seen movement (despite some setbacks) in deploying C

Focus Rest & Refresh

This will be my final newsletter for the year. And what a year it has been! Covid has dominated our lives for all but a few weeks in 2020. Concurrently we’ve faced major economic and racial justice is

Giving Thanks

This is surely the most challenging year that nonprofits have faced in a generation, forced to struggle with the chaos of Covid-19 during a time of great political turmoil. But in the midst of these m

Planning and the November Election

You don’t often hear the term “court sense” when discussing the leadership of nonprofits. The term comes from basketball, describing the ability of a player to see what’s developing on the court, at a

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