by John Fulwider | Jun 20, 2015 | Strategic Planning
Boring meetings that don’t engage board members’ minds are a prime reason for board disengagement. You can de-boring (!) your board meetings with a strategic thinking calendar. A strategic thinking calendar is a list, published at the beginning of the...
by John Fulwider | Jun 6, 2015 | Strategic Planning
Use the quick exercise below to take a first stab at identifying your nonprofit’s business model, then get input from all the people who care about your organization to zero in on the best answer. For-profit executives use business models—such as “low-cost...
by John Fulwider | Jun 6, 2015 | Strategic Planning
Developing a useful strategy that holds everyone accountable to producing results requires an effective process that follows four guidelines: Trust the organization. An effective process doesn’t employ outside consultants to write the strategy—that’s a...
by John Fulwider | Jun 1, 2015 | Nonprofits
This: As a colleague of mine says, “When you don’t give a salary range, you’re saying that you’re only going to hire people who are married to people with professional salaries, young folks still supported by well-off parents, and the independently wealthy. The rest...