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Should a nonprofit be run like a business?

Many leaders and participants in the nonprofit world believe that the introduction of businesslike practices have no place in an...

On Leadership: from the Harvard Business Review

Here's a very good short piece from HBR on the six timeless fundamentals of leadership: https://hbr.org/2018/11/the-fundamentals-of-leade...

Leadership, Ethics, Rules and Culture

Whenever a major organizational scandal breaks - widespread fraud in a company or terrible behavior in a university, a prestigious...

Strategic Thinking

Ask almost any CEO in America to list their three biggest challenges, and the likelihood is high that near the top will be “devoting...

"I'm all boxed in! All the drivers of my business are beyond my control!”

Years ago, I had a client who was CEO of a company whose main product was a high-tech plastic that held the guidance systems in the nose...