Category: nonprofit leadership and management
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The Future of Arts Leadership Green Paper
This season, Americans for the Arts is hosting an online salon on arts-related topics surrounding our future. As part of our work of the Emerging Leader Council, I crafted this green paper in collaboration with the ELC’s ideas about where our leaders (and leadership) are heading. You can follow and participate in the discussion here.…
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Organizational Change & Development in Tabatha’s Salon Takeover
Bravo has been running a lot of this show lately, and since I’ve been laid up (or, more accurately, laid out, like a cadaver) with a wrenched back, I’ve watched a bunch of episodes. And I’m kind of hooked. I was initially sort of reproachful about the show’s premise–über-wench Tabatha Coffey (formerly of the first…
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You don’t have to be 40 years old to be a nonprofit executive director.
On my radio show yesterday, we had an incredible discussion about leadership with four nonprofit executive directors under 40 (see their full bios here): Trista Harris, Headwaters Foundation for JusticeJohn Mark Eberhardt, The Steward’s StaffBridget Clark Whitney, Kids Food BasketLaura Zabel, Springboard for the Arts In a special 90 minute episode, my guest shared insights…
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O Academe!
Working in academia has its pluses and minuses. All summer long I enjoyed what amounted to a private city, with restaurants empty at lunch time, wide sidewalks and quads free of pushing and shoving and skateboarders, and on-campus services like the gym and library that seemed to be waiting for me to command them into…
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The Tao of Wayne Gretzky
One of my colleagues at work gently teases me about my ability to bust out a situation-appropriate platitude at just about any given time, for any purpose. Some of my favorite nonprofit work platitudes come from—yes—Wayne Gretzky, hockey great and coach of my beloved Phoenix Coyotes. Gretzky’s most famous quotations rival the deep, metaphorical simplicity…
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Arden in the Big City
Since moving to DC, Arden has decided that she, too, wants to climb the nonprofit career ladder. Here she is seen in my office, where she’s interning and assisting me on a few important chewing projects. She’s also a bit of a micromanager, wandering around the office to visit the staff to make sure they’re…
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