From what perspective
We all have to recognise that there are other perspectives than our own, and to accept the responsibility, ourselves, for reconciling them.
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Culture
The art of culture change
We like things to have a simple recipe, like “five steps to culture change success”, but the recipe is not the cake, and change is complex.
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Opportunity from adversity
The charity sector is facing a lot of strong headwinds that we can’t avoid, so how can we create opportunity from adversity?
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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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Reasons to be positive
Despite everything, there are plenty of reasons to be positive. And now, more than ever, we need to remind ourselves of them.
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Bridging the divides
How we can collectively unleash civil society’s superpower to start bridging the divides and countering social fragmentation
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How we make decisions
How we make decisions, particularly the most contentious ones, is often more important than the decision itself.
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Getting your board on board
Most bad board meetings are easily avoidable if we do the right things, and most of them are things we already know how to do.
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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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