| By Forbes Nonprofit Council, www.forbes.com | All organizations must establish trust with the people who give them money. This is a relatively easy task for a for-profit business — they simply give the customer a high-quality product or service in exchange for their payment. Nonprofits, on the other hand, must build donor trust based solely on […]
Want to Be a Stronger Leader? Use this Map to Improve Your Alliances and Relationships
| By Ellen Petry Leanse, www.inc.com | Relationships and alliances help you build momentum and move closer to your goals, They influence your outlooks and attitudes about what’s happening around you. They even affect your longevity, resistance to disease, and mental wellbeing. Yet in the hard work of building a business we often forget to be intentional about the allies […]
Everything You Need to Know About Great Leadership
| By Lolly Daskal, www.inc.com | Effective leadership can be thought of as a set of qualities and skills. Different leaders may have different makeups, different strengths and challenges. But there are certain traits that lie at the core of leadership–the qualities that all great leaders share. Developing the elements that make up leadership is a lifelong process. Start with these […]
Five Books To Help You Be More Productive And Organized
| By Anisa Purbasari Horton, www.fastcompany.com | Getting everything done is not always simple. There are only 24 hours in a day, and for those of us who tend to take on more than we can realistically handle, it’s not enough time to do everything well. I’ve discovered that being organized means managing my energy, health, mind, […]
The Single Most Important Thing You Can Do to Build Emotional Intelligence
| By Jennifer Guttman, www.inc.com | The most important factor in attempting to cultivate emotional intelligence is the importance of listening and not talking. When people feel like they are having difficulty with a social skill, their insecurities bring on talking. So, when people are insecure about something, they tend to talk a lot. The most important […]
Have You Failed Well Recently?
| By Dan Ryan, www.forbes.com | Most of us like to support or follow a winner. In the world of sports, teams like the New York Yankees, the New England Patriots and others have a solid following because of their history of success. In the world of business, success is also sought by many, but there is […]
What Soccer Can Teach Us About Freedom
TEDTalks “Soccer is the only thing on this planet that we can all agree to do together,” says theater maker and TED Fellow Marc Bamuthi Joseph. Through his performances and an engagement initiative called “Moving and Passing,” Joseph combines music, dance and soccer to reveal accessible, joyful connections between the arts and sports. Learn more […]
Want to Be a Great Leader? Become a Great Identifier
| By Jeff Haden, www.inc.com | Once upon a time I was a member of the most productive crew in the department, which meant we were considered to be the best crew, because numbers were everything. But we didn’t need a Jobs or Bezos or Sandberg or (pick your personal epitome of effective leadership) to get us […]