Leadership
Building Leadership Agility at the ACLU
In the midst of an ongoing assault on civil rights, the ACLU’s Strategic Affiliate Initiative is helping a century-old organization grow to meet the moment.
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Nonprofits & NGOs
Nonprofit Mergers and Acquisitions: Not Just an Escape Plan
With careful planning and resource allocation, and a clear understanding of what it means to combine different organizational cultures and visions, mergers and acquisitions can be more than an escape plan, and instead help nonprofits preserve their mission and expand their impact.
Nonprofits & NGOs
Exit Strategies
It might be a cliché, but it’s rare for international NGOs to “work themselves out of a job.” Doing so requires planning from the start, communicating clearly, setting hard deadlines, and going unconditionally.
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Philanthropy & Funding
Creating Your Philanthropist Strategy
An excerpt from Delusional Altruism explains how philanthropists are often fooled by their own efforts.
Nonprofits & NGOs
Nonprofits Need to Change for Good, and the Moment Is Now
An incredibly challenging year has highlighted for nonprofits the value of authentically putting organizational egos aside, collaborating more deeply, and honestly considering mergers—and those practices need to continue.
Nonprofits & NGOs
Nonprofits, It’s Time to Own Your Social Media Audience
A call for organizations to mitigate the risk of change in the social media landscape by strategically decoupling themselves from platforms that are causing harm.
Organizational Development
Using Six Conceptualizations of Capital to Help Achieve the SDGs
By abandoning a narrow understanding of capital as just assets that appear on a balance sheet, businesses and other organizations can harness the value of their people, relationships, knowledge, and processes to move the world closer to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
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Creating a Digital-First Strategy
Nonprofit leaders should think less about the technology and more about the people who will use it and the goals they hope to achieve. Part of a series produced with the support of Salesforce.
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Leadership
Becoming More Vigilant
An excerpt from See Sooner, Act Faster: How Vigilant Leaders Thrive in an Era of Digital Turbulence explains how to craft and employ vigilance in order to become a better leader.
Nonprofits & NGOs
How Adaptive Strategy Is Adapting
New developments from the disciplines of innovation, data science, and implementation management are teaching us that good strategy isn’t just about setting your destination and path, it’s also about how you execute and adjust over time.