Leadership Transition When a Founder’s Star Is on the Rise
Three unique challenges facing successors who take over from ambitious founder-predecessors, and how to navigate them during the already difficult period of transition.
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Getting Past the Glorification of the Founder
A seamless CEO handoff requires that founders of social impact organizations balance their public image with their organization’s brand, while providing space for their teams to shine early on.
Whose Knowledge Is It?
Community-centered approaches to research in practice at Simon Fraser University. Part of the Innovating Higher Education series.
How to Be a Super Board Chair
Nine super tactics and one superpower board chairs can use to make the most of the board experience and prime their organizations for success.
How to See What the World Is Teaching Us About COVID-19
We need to look to other countries to change how we see our own, opening our imaginations to new ideas, solutions, and futures.
The Five Stages of Founder Transitions
It is well known that the start-up process is a psychological journey; the same is true of the leaving process.
Transformational Capacity Building
Nonprofits that serve communities of color struggle to survive because of systemic racial disparities and biases. To surmount these challenges, we recommend seven approaches that have emerged from our work with these communities.
Bringing Organizational Well-Being to Life
By committing to a broad, participatory learning process, social change leaders can greatly enhance staff positivity and resilience, as well as increase organizational sustainability and impact. Part of the Centered Self series.
Creating a Better World Means Asking Better Questions
By shifting the focus of social innovation from actions to the thinking behind those actions, social sector leaders can create a better world—a world different than the past.
How and Why to Shut Down a Successful Nonprofit
A nonprofit that finds itself in a position of strength amid a rapidly changing world may do more for social change by handing its assets to another organization better equipped to navigate the future.