The Changing Face of Charities
Between 2001 and 2011 the charity sector’s income grew from £31bn to £41bn a year. Not through fundraising or grants, or legacies or investments, but through commercial trading. Public donations […]
Category Archives: Articles
Avoiding the Race to the Bottom
It’s a tough time to be providing services to the public sector. Budgets are vanishing, framework agreements are pushing risk and cost down the supply chain, services are being commoditised […]
How to grow a pipeline of leaders
I recently hosted a breakfast seminar for Third Sector CEOs on getting their top teams “fit for the future”. We heard a wealth of examples of how people had built […]
Overcoming the barriers to change
The biggest challenge when leading any kind of transformation is in overcoming peoples’ natural resistance to change. It’s the most common barrier to business turnarounds and the single reason that […]
Four signs of Bad Strategy
Being in my line of work is a bit like being a doctor. Tell people what you do and some will immediately start sharing their intimate medical details – or […]