Leadership
When Black Women Walk, Things Change
An excerpt from America’s Path Forward on prioritizing the joy and health and proximate leadership of Black women.
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Tag: Well-Being
Organizational Development
Don’t Salaries Matter?
Of work, weasels, and employee engagement in the nonprofit sector.
Government
The Right to Disconnect
Constant connectivity harms employees’ work-life balance and mental health. Better labor policy and remote work legislation can help meet the needs of people and organizations.
Health
Putting Health at the Center of Climate Change
Businesses need to take actions that improve not only the environment, but also human health and well-being, particularly among vulnerable communities in their value chains.
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Leadership
Reinventing How We Lead
An excerpt from Lead From the Heart on how emotions are the most powerful force in the workplace.
Nonprofits & NGOs
2022 Summer Social Innovation Reading List
Suggested summer reading (and listening) from SSIR’s editors.
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Nonprofits & NGOs
How to Build Nonprofit Talent Systems During Times of Rapid Growth
Four data-driven, inclusive human resource systems that can help quickly scaling nonprofits maintain their efficiency, values, and performance.
Leadership
SSIR’s 2021 Social Innovation Reading List
Highlights from book excerpts published by SSIR online this year on topics including mutualism, grassroots development, breakthrough ideas, racial injustice, and well-being.
Leadership
Using Founder Sabbaticals as Organizational Reset
Founder sabbaticals are as important for the organization as for the well-being of the founder. But for a founder’s sabbatical to build organizational resilience, examine internal power dynamics, and prepare for the founder’s eventual (and inevitable) departure, organizations must plan for, resource, and require them.