The culture challenge
Why nearly 30 CEOs of major charities came together to talk about the culture challenge we all face
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Capability
Filling your strategy gap
The strategy gap is where your answer needs to be to the question: what would it take for that society you’ve just described, to actually come about?
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Double your personal impact
If you’re serious about dramatically increasing your own personal impact you’ll go ahead and start dropping and delegating as of now
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Fifty routes to greater impact
There’s a vast number of alternative ways for nonprofits to have greater impact. All we need is to start thinking differently.
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Developing your resilience
These things are not nice-to-haves; they are survival strategies for leadership and the foundations for developing your resilience
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The best gifts you can give
From referrals to feedback, if we really understand people’s interests and potential, the best gifts we can give them are often free
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Commercial understanding
I find it bizarre that a lot of people, including plenty who work in the sector, still see the idea of charities “becoming more commercial” as somehow distasteful or immoral. I can only think it speaks to both an extraordinarily naive view of charity, and an equally poor level of commercial understanding. Because, to paraphrase
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Rethinking power
The phrase “sharing power” has huge traction but it’s often misused and misleading. Here’s why we need to start rethinking power.
Raising performance
For any group of people, the first step to improving performance is always to align on expectations; to explicitly agree what good looks like
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Preparing for the future
If we’re serious about making the world a better place, these are the building-blocks charities need to start preparing for the future
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