Month: June 2023

During good times, it’s easy to read leadership books and get behind all the cliché quotes, methodologies, and soundbites from the experts. We can learn from case studies and cast big vision and goals. When margins are high, and rain produces abundant crops, it seems to make a hell of a lot more sense to … Read More

My experience has been that the best nonprofit board members are those who listen the most intently while asking challenging questions that get to the heart of the matter the most directly.  How much energy does the typical board put into evaluating its own health and effectiveness? This group of questions includes many that boards might … Read More

“Eclectic” is an accurate way to describe the mix of people on almost any nonprofit board. Getting a group of often highly successful people with multiple motives and perspectives to pull in the same direction is perhaps the quintessential challenge of the nonprofit world.  The absence of the compelling profit motive that drives for-profit organizations … Read More