Status Updates From The High-Growth Nonprofit P...

Discover that one fundraising superpower: is a storytelling? Partnering? Is it your voice? Shepherding supporters? Accessing news outlets? Featuring a celebrity?

Once you know it: harness it, improve it, leverage it!

There are two things that caused driven organizations are generally proficient at: conducting unproductive, meetings, and postponing decisions. Generally the two go hand-in-hand.

Maxed out capacity may be a sign of imminent growth and burnout

What benefits derive from categorizing hours for me I’m able to see what’s moving the needle, where the team is focusing on client efforts, and perhaps where we need to refocus

I shared a list of questions that I’ve been developing and updating over the years, meant to inform executives: what’s working, what’s not, what’s missing, and what’s confusing

Good leaders should be the best listeners

A leader’s role when setting bold goals is establishing how to reach them. Most, but not all of the time, that means aligning onboard talent and tasks to pursue firm priorities.

In all leadership endeavors: make a decision. If you’re wrong, you’ll know right away that it needs to be fixed. If you’re right, things improve. If you don’t decide, you’ve lost control, and nothing can help.

Plans are worthless, but planning is everything -Eisenhower

We’re in the first revolution: crisis of leadership

Diagram of a Great variation on an Action Priority Matrix

Nonprofits operate in resource, constrained environments, and it’s normal to feel you have no capacity for anything other than daily tasks