transition
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How to Overthrow the Government (of Business-as-Usual) and Keep Employees’ Soul Intact
Let’s be clear – I’m not actually talking about D.C. I’m talking about the tired, rigid, soul-sucking systems we’ve inherited inside our institutions. You know the ones: the bureaucratic B.S., the scarcity-thinking silos, the lip-service values slapped on a wall but ignored in every meeting. The kind of organizational “governments” that are terrified of transparency…
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Disruption with Dignity: Burn the Playbook, Keep the Soul
Just because a system has been around forever doesn’t mean it works. Hell, some of the most deeply entrenched systems in the nonprofit sector are the very ones quietly suffocating the people within them. And yet we keep duct-taping them together, praying the next grant cycle or strategic plan will magically fix a structure that…
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CHANGE: When Leaves Fall
The seasons are changing, leaves are falling, and cooler weather is in the air (in some places). Rosh Hashanah rings in the Jewish New Year and for many of us, it’s a time of transition, shedding the old and looking forward. What will we release? What will we create? What are you feeling in this…