Leadership - Articles

Innovative ways to develop strong leadership capabilities (more)

Peter deCourcy Hero - Beyond 2009: Emerging Trends in Philanthropy - Thumbnail

Peter deCourcy Hero - Beyond 2009: Emerging Trends in Philanthropy

How are nonprofit management leaders, foundations, and individuals dealing with the new economic realities?  In this audio lecture, Peter Hero, with his wealth of experience in nonprofit management and foundations, shares his reflections on the downturn, how the nonprofit sector has been impacted, and the response from donors and foundations. These lessons in nonprofit management guide leaders to think more deeply when times are tough, with the optimism that we will all come out stronger.

Hayagreeva Rao - Market Rebels: How Activists Make or Break Radical Innovation - Thumbnail

Hayagreeva Rao - Market Rebels: How Activists Make or Break Radical Innovation

Do you identify as an activist, a social entrepreneur, or both? What do they have in common? In this audio lecture sponsored by the Stanford Center for Social Innovation, Hayagreeva Rao, explores how the joined hands of activists, or "market rebels," shape markets, and how this promotes or blocks innovation. Rao's lessons are applicable to leaders in the nonprofit and for-profit spheres, marketers, and activists who harness collective action for institutional and social change.

David La Piana - Strategic Restructuring for Nonprofit Organizations - Thumbnail

David La Piana - Strategic Restructuring for Nonprofit Organizations

David La Piana has been recognized as a leading expert on nonprofit management and governance. In this audio lecture sponsored by the Stanford Center for Social Innovation, La Piana presents a continuum of partnership options ranging from strategic alliance to joint ventures to full-scale mergers, all to which falls under a term he has coined as strategic restructuring. Nonprofit management leaders are finding strategic restructuring as a way to respond to the current economic conditions.

John Mackey - Conscious Business and Entrepreneurship - Thumbnail

John Mackey - Conscious Business and Entrepreneurship

Social entrepreneurship requires conscious leadership, says Whole Foods CEO John Mackey in this University podcast. Delivering a talk sponsored by the Stanford Center for Social Innovation, Mackey issues a clarion call for nothing less than "conscious capitalism," arguing that business can indeed serve more than the almighty dollar. He discusses his own company's challenges in the social enterprise arena.