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The False Security of Best Practices
In the social good sector, our organizations’ visions and missions claim a future that will be better and different from now. We dream of a world that does not yet exist, which means that current best practices aren’t yet capable of getting us to where we want to be.
That means for us to fully realize our visions and successfully fulfill our missions, we can’t settle for what’s considered “best” right now – we must reach for better.
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?
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.