Mastering Innovation
Innovation is an important tool to create social change, one that can be learned and mastered.
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Innovative approaches to internally driven, organization-wide efforts to achieve strategic goals (more)
When Innovation Goes Wrong
Organizations often stumble when it comes to turning innovation into impact. Here’s a guide to diagnosing and preventing several “pathologies” that underlie this failure.
Engaging Employees to Create a Sustainable Business
The key to creating a vibrant and sustainable company is to find ways to get all employees personally engaged in day-to-day corporate sustainability efforts.
How Grantmaking Can Create Adaptive Organizations
Philanthropists should create collaborative relationships with grantees that cultivate critical thinking, learning, and adaptation.
Using Small Wins to Tackle Big Problems
During a critical period in its history, Greenpeace restructured its organization in order to leverage gains made at a local level.
Between Two Sectors
When a for-profit company partners with an NGO, it must carefully manage employees’ adjustment to a new organizational context.
New Tools for Measuring and Improving Employee Engagement
The number of companies offering employee engagement and happiness surveys, feedback tools, pulse checks, and culture assessments is exploding. How are social sector organizations using them?
The Ripple Effect of Foundation Culture
Foundations’ internal practices and culture ripple out to grantees in meaningful ways, and it directly accelerates or impedes grantees’ effectiveness.
Podcast
Thriving in an Age of Volatility
In times of profound turmoil, how can organizations become more resilient and adaptive? A talk from our 2015 Nonprofit Management Institute.
Presenting for Impact
How applying the principles of live performance to presentations can increase organizational impact.