Archive for the year 2006
Do Be Do Be Do
I’m grateful for your queries, as much as I am for your answers and your stories. Please don’t hesitate to challenge me to be more specific, to give me counterexamples, or, as a reader of Nonprofit Online News did, just ask some really good questions: Is there a difference between being an authentic agency and [...]
Posted: December 3rd, 2006 under The Ideas.
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The Influence of Dysfunctional Leadership
Leaders set the tone for an organization, serve as its public face, and through their power, set in motion all sorts of dynamics. When a leader acts out their own fears and denial in the context of their role in an organization, it can poison everything. One of my readers wrote with an example (edited [...]
Posted: November 30th, 2006 under Case Studies.
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Mission Drift in a Social Enterprise
As I embarked on this project, I invited readers of Nonprofit Online News to share stories of authenticity and it absence. In most cases, I will obscure the identifying information about the people or the organizations involved. Although it’s not my favorite perspective, the conventional definition of a “social enterprise” is an organization or a [...]
Posted: November 29th, 2006 under Case Studies.
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Grief and Loss in Organizations
Most of the nearly 1000 organizations with which I’ve worked would object profoundly to the idea that grieving is even a legitimate organizational ability and many others would be merely puzzled. What the hell is Michael talking about now? I’m not talking about an organizational version of crying and wailing. Nor am I saying that [...]
Posted: November 27th, 2006 under The Ideas.
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