Nonprofit Management
Happy-Face Blues
How supervisors exhaust their workers by constraining their emotions.
Tag: Human Capital
Nonprofit Management
Review: Toxic Emotions at Work
Organizations need to get better at talking about feelings.
Podcast
Leadership
Tom Tierney - Nonprofit Management and the Leadership Deficit
One of the biggest challenges in nonprofit management is hiring and retaining talented executive leaders. In this conversation with Stanford Social Innovation Review managing editor Eric Nee, Thomas Tierney shares findings from the Bridgespan Group's study on the "leadership deficit." Tierney talks about how this crisis is affecting nonprofits, and what organizations can do to address the problem.
Podcast
Civic Engagement
Marc Freedman - Social Entrepreneurship and the Encore Career
Social entrepreneurship is now a path for many in the second half of life, proving that retirement can be a time of creativity, invention, and contribution, not decline. In this audio lecture, social innovator Marc Freedman discusses the huge untapped resource in potential retirees who are finding new ways to use their experience to tackle important social problems. Freedman shares the story of the creation of The Purpose Prize, a three-year initiative to invest in these new pioneers.
Nonprofit Management
Guess Who’s Socially Irresponsible?
Nonprofits aren’t as nice to their employees as you might think.
Nonprofit Management
Vengeance, Interrupted
How organizations can inspire reconciliation instead of revenge.
Business
Diversity Training Doesn’t Work
How can companies hire and promote more women and minorities?
Nonprofits
The Leadership Deficit
Creative ways to meet the growing demand for talent by finding and recruiting new leaders from a wide range of groups, including business, the military, and the growing pool of retirees.
Nonprofit Management
Pundits Weigh In
Social sector leaders opinions on the article, "The Leadership Deficit."
Social Entrepreneurship
The Enterprising Type
How the personalities of entrepreneurs and managers differ.