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Band Parents?—?The Ideal Ad Hoc Team Model?

Harmonious Workplaces

They serve in project management roles, accounting roles, training and development roles, logistics roles, health and safety roles, and even roles in culinary procurement and sanitization. Heck, I have worked as a “desk jockey” for most of my career in management and marketing. Do we find ourselves when we volunteer?

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So You Want to Start a Nonprofit?

The Nonprofit Consultant

Are nonprofits not "playing nice in the sandbox"? The responses I got back all seemed to agree with Mr. Anderson: "There are too many nonprofits!" But not, apparently, in the nonprofit sector. He wants people with new ideas to get together with existing nonprofit organizations and "play nice in the sandbox."

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Why Organizational Relevance Matters When Managing Human Resources

Emerson Consulting Group

Recognizing this fundamental aspect of the paradigm in which we all operate signals us that our jobs as human resource leaders is to continually identify opportunities that deliver greater value to all stakeholders. With our highest value resources, greater value comes from operating as a human resource development exemplar.

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Consultant, Contractor, Freelancer - Labels Matter!

Successful Independent Consulting

Employees of major consulting firms like McKinsey and Accenture are called consultants, as are some in-house specialists deployed in an advisory role to work with teams outside of their own reporting structure (for example, an internal change management consultant). By contrast, professional independent consultants operate as microbusinesses.

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Health Systems Need to Completely Reassess How They Manage Costs

Harvard Business

hospitals and health systems experienced an average 39% reduction in their operating margins from 2015 to 2017. Cost reduction requires an honest and thorough reassessment of everything the health system does and ultimately, a change in the organization’s operating culture. Eliminating layers of management.

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How Companies, Governments, and Nonprofits Can Create Social Change Together

Harvard Business

In 2016, socially responsible investing made up more than one out of every four invested dollars under professional management. “To prosper over time,” he argued, “companies must benefit all of their stakeholders, including shareholders, employees, customers, and the communities in which they operate.”

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Lately on Quora.

The Nonprofit Consultant

I've been spending much of my social media time over at Quora, answering questions about nonprofit management and fundraising (and a few questions of a more political nature). What is the best step after setting vision and mission in strategic planning for a nonprofit organization? or, isn't it?)