The Nonprofit Consultant

AUGUST 16, 2010

One of my pet peeves has always been when well-meaning, but somewhat clueless outsiders tell us in the nonprofit sector that we need to be "more businesslike." Her lessons and leadership are great examples, not just for business leaders, but also for our peers in the nonprofit world. Ken Goldstein: First off, thank you!

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

An investor-owned hospital executive whose company had acquired major nonprofit health care enterprises compared the proliferation of contracts to the growth of barnacles on the bottom of a freighter. One thing that distinguishes the typical nonprofit from a comparably-sized investor-owned hospital is the number of layers of management.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Usually, that change is intended to improve performance – the effective and efficient achievement of goals. Fundraising for Nonprofits. Leadership. Nonprofit Capacity Building. Consulting and Organizational Development. Crisis Management. Customer Service. Facilitation. Free Management Library Blogs. Human Resources.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 7, 2018

He was 58 and already retired from an illustrious career in ophthalmology when he founded the nonprofit Aravind Eye Hospital in 1976. A doctorpreneur par excellence, in our view, was Dr. Govindappa Venkataswamy , known as Dr. V. Not only were his medical credentials impeccable, he was also deeply compassionate.

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Management Consulted

MARCH 26, 2017

Each spring, Bain also has an “Impact Day” like Deloitte’s – branded “Community Impact Day,” everyone leaves the office to spend the day supporting local nonprofits, which most recently included the Anacostia Watershed Society, KIPP DC, the Rock Creek Conservancy, and the Father McKenna Center.

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Harvard Business

JULY 11, 2017

For nearly a decade, I worked at Catalyst , a nonprofit focused on helping women advance in the workplace, consulting with progressive companies who began investing in diversity initiatives in the ‘90s. We created a playbook and training for managers focused on inclusive leadership. It can’t just be left up to HR , either.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

JUNE 28, 2010

Operations assumes this status quo as a “given” and works within current procedures to improve them and “operationalize” them with a high degree of efficiency. Fundraising for Nonprofits. Leadership. Nonprofit Capacity Building. An operation is charted to preserve the status quo, the current thinking and methods.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 24, 2016

Relationships aren’t numbers, though, and CRM isn’t an efficiency tool. In my experience, relationship leadership boils down to three essential components. This omission stems from a lack of intent, and it’s up to the organization’s leadership to correct it. Setting a vision for your relationship network.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

APRIL 13, 2010

There may be times in your project where members need to learn certain expert-based knowledge and need to do so in a highly focused and efficient manner. Read my weekly blogs: Boards, Consulting and OD, Nonprofits and Strategic Planning. Fundraising for Nonprofits. Leadership. Nonprofit Capacity Building.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Retailers can also share productivity-enhancing knowledge and techniques to help farmers increase their production efficiency and boost farm product quality. As owners of private label food products and shelf space, large food retailers can play a leadership role here. Initiatives are underway but still remain voluntary and fragmented.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

MAY 14, 2012

Guest post from John Scherer, Co-Director of Scherer Leadership International. Far from being the driving, efficiency-at-any-cost, push workers to their limits person, Taylor was focused on making work easier , not harder. No one in our long chain of OD ancestors is as controversial as Taylor. Organizational Change. Consulting.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

AUGUST 16, 2010

In other words, no single measurement of organizational efficiency or satisfaction- no single time slice of organizational performance can provide valid indicators of organizational health. Fundraising for Nonprofits. Leadership. Nonprofit Capacity Building. We will see this better represented in our second systems view.

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Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2017

Jobs at universities, nonprofit research institutions, and government research facilities are exempted, as are workers from certain countries and any current H-1B holders applying for renewal. To reduce overhead, or to cut costs, or to increase efficiency, you decide to contract out (outsource) some or all of your IT work.

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