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Practicing Values-Driven Strategy
In nonprofit strategic planning, we often start with the big stuff – mission, vision, and values. These guiding statements can and should be powerful expressions of the world your organization wants to create, what it will focus on to create it, and the behaviors it will embody on its way to fulfilling these big dreams.
But what happens when you realize that the way you’re working may not be upholding your vision, mission, and values? How do you reset and re-center yourself and your organization on the big stuff?
Origin Stories
Our society is fascinated by the origin stories of superheroes whose unique talents, skills, and life experiences enable them to save the day again and again. In our day-to-day lives, social sector leaders ARE these superheroes – and while they may not have capes or cool gadgets, they’re packing purpose, resilience, and the unrelenting drive to make the world a better place.
Honoring Loss in Our Organizations
Loss isn’t only a personal phenomenon - it’s a professional one, too. Without acknowledging and honoring loss, we prevent ourselves from creating the culture and space needed to welcome what comes next.
How to Make Time for Good Strategy
Time is often cited as our most valuable resource and commodity, but we don’t always treat it the same way we do other things we value highly.