Tom Spencer

AUGUST 4, 2018

The question is, what is the best way to develop skills and grow professionally without the big price tags that come with graduate and postgraduate courses. The question is, what is the best way to develop skills and grow professionally without the big price tags that come with graduate and postgraduate courses. Start a Blog.

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Consultant Ninja

JUNE 13, 2009

Management Consultant | Excel Jockey | Slide Monkey | Corporate Insurgent | One-Eyed Man in the Valley of the Blind Mckinsey | Bain | BCG | Booz | Oliver Wyman. Ive chosen to share this blog with some friends and co-workers over the past year. Filed under the tag Consulting, not Bitterness. skip to main | skip to sidebar.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

OCTOBER 21, 2010

As regular readers of this blog probably know, I do a lot of Interim Executive Director jobs. Recently I was having a meeting with the board leadership of an organization that is considering hiring an Interim ED, and one of the questions they asked me was, "What is your management style?" Tags: supervision management.

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Prudent Pedal

MARCH 27, 2020

Here are my Work and Personal lists: Work Manage business-related issues created by the crisis. Yesterday my 17-year-old, over-achieving daughter shared her Spring break, social-distancing To-Do list. Her example inspired me to share my own lists, both Work and Personal, with my prudent readers. Now we can take advantage of the time.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

I'm offering you a chance to write the Nonprofit Consultant Blog for a day. They can be new tools and tips for fundraising, using social media, advocacy, industry news and happenings, or just plain old boring good management. And, of course, your post will be fully credited to you, with links to your blog/twitter/etc.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 17, 2019

Having completed CEMS, an international master in management degree, with many of its alumni entering the realm of consulting, how did you find yourself in blockchain, and what was it that intrigued you to start participating in this space? While completing my management degree, I worked in strategy consulting like you did.

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freshminds

MARCH 10, 2015

This is probably the best website out there for all things management consultancing-y! This is probably the best website out there for all things management consultancing-y! Management Consulted This one definitely wins for most excellent pun! But watch out - the CV editing and professional advice comes with hefty price tags.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

A new posting on the Blue Sky Collective blog claims that "Facebook Causes Continue to Show Little Promise as Fundraising Tool." If I were a nonprofit manager, I would think twice before investing more time and money into Causes." If I were a nonprofit manager, I would think twice before investing more time and money into Causes."

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The Nonprofit Consultant

JUNE 20, 2007

Jonathan Peizer, of JP's Philanthropy Blog, had a great post yesterday called Being Smart and Being a Good Manager is Not the Same , and I've got to agree with him. Think about this in relation to how nonprofit managers come up through the ranks. But I didn't learn about management.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

JUNE 8, 2010

I love it when I get a good question in my email that results in a good blog post. If you're a regular reader of this blog, you know that one of the main things I do as a nonprofit consultant is serve organizations as an Interim Executive Director (IED). Tags: interim Nonprofit executive director management.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

APRIL 2, 2007

For those new to blog carnivals, they are a fun way to focus in on a topic and learn about new blogs. posted at Donor Power Blog. Katya Andresen presents How to court a blogger posted at Katya's Nonprofit Marketing Blog. Peter Brinckerhoff presnts Exec Pay posted at Mission-Based Management.

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Henman Performance Executive

JANUARY 17, 2013

Executive blog Contact Us. The Ritz charges a third more per night and then tags on a $12.99 Search the blog. Crisis Management. Talent Management. About Linda. Client List. Newsletter. Self-Serving Customer Service. by Linda Henman on January 17, 2013. No, I haven’t been living among aliens, just pondering.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

For those who are not familiar with the blog carnival concept, it is a collection of the best posts on a particular subject (in this case, nonprofit management and fundraising) from the previous week. If you have a post you'd like to submit, there's still a few hours left to submit your blog by clicking here and following this link.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

JUNE 12, 2006

Also, I've just learned of a new resource blog: the Nonprofit Management and Operations Blog from Aspiration, a nonprofit software solutions company. Also, I've just learned of a new resource blog: the Nonprofit Management and Operations Blog from Aspiration, a nonprofit software solutions company.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

OCTOBER 4, 2007

My friend, Tom, over at the True Talk Blog, has an interesting post called "Asymmetry is the New Black." Tom sees asymmetry in action in everything from YouTube to the blogging movement to the Iraqi insurgency. Tags: competition assymetry Nonprofit mergers management business. It's a very exciting and inspiring idea.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

JULY 25, 2008

I'm talking about your finances, your governance, and your management of the public trust. Start Blogging - Show that your efforts at transparency aren't just an annual activity coinciding with your audit and 990s. But I'd like to focus on a different type of mistake; lack of transparency. First off, what do I mean by "transparency?"

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The Nonprofit Consultant

APRIL 6, 2010

Because of the focus on communications and transparency we managed to avoid the pitfalls of too-quick a transition and the potential jarring effect that could have had on staff and operations. We completed the merger quicker than many thought possible, but we did it well.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

AUGUST 16, 2010

It's about time somebody stood up for our sector and told the simple truth that our managers know how to do more with nothing than most corporate managers can do with million dollar budgets. Now, to our rescue, has come Nancy Lublin, CEO of Do Something and founder of Dress for Success. Ken Goldstein: First off, thank you!

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The Nonprofit Consultant

AUGUST 15, 2007

Thanks to all my readers with being patient through a summer of irregular blogging, including this last three week silence. will be managed properly. will be managed properly. Tags: ethics criteria vacation work clients consulting. Things should be getting back to "normal" and regular posting over the next week or so.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

MAY 23, 2006

Jonathan Peizer has a new posting on his "Philantherapy Blog" addressing the systemic flaw in traditional nonprofit capacity support. His focus is on technology, so he mentions NPower and the Erider's Network, but the argument also goes for financial, management, and fundraising capacity building organizations).

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The Nonprofit Consultant

OCTOBER 26, 2006

Measuring outcomes is more than just good management. As "a fundraiser" at the Don't Tell the Donor blog points out, confidence in the nonprofit sector - while a problem - is still higher than confidence in the "business" sector. "A Today, nonprofits need to operate like a business. That would also precede the Enron scandal as well.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

OCTOBER 1, 2006

Pam Ashlund of the "Non-Profit Eye" blog has posted an interesting piece about the trend of fraud committed against nonprofits by their own staff and volunteers. Managers and board members (if they're actively involved) are not immune to nonprofit burnout themselves. Tags: nonprofit , fraud , burnout , oversight

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The Nonprofit Consultant

JUNE 26, 2006

If you've been reading this blog regularly, you know that I like small nonprofits, and am wary of merger-fever. Tags: nonprofits , small organizations , leadership , collaboration Deborah Elizabeth Finn seems to agree with me, and has written specifically about the technology needs of small nonprofits. The leadership could (should?)

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The Nonprofit Consultant

AUGUST 4, 2006

The "leading business publication for nonprofit management" adds somebody to their list of 50 top leaders for bending the rules regarding lobbying by nonprofits in order to spread hate? The honoree I refer to is Dr. James Dobson, founder and chair of Focus on the Family. For this he receives honors? Homosexuals, of course.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

For example, Susan Fowler’s 2017 blog about Uber detailed not only her recollections of being repeatedly harassed, but what she described as a “game-of-thrones” environment, in which managers sought to one-up and sabotage colleagues to get ahead. Masculinity Contest Cultures. and Canada from different organizations.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

JUNE 21, 2006

(This is another older article that I'm posting to the blog to add it to the archives. Legally speaking, you are also the public's eye on the organization, ensuring that it is managed in a fiscally sound manner, and that all funds are used for charitable or educational purposes.

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Consulting Matters

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

You can look at the role of a consultant as someone who simply provides solutions to enhance leadership and business results. Or you can see the role through a more meaningful lens as someone who comes alongside senior executives in order to speak truth to power and influence decisions that benefit the entire system. So let's get started.

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Confessions of a Consultant

DECEMBER 2, 2018

It will happen. Figure out your ‘stance’ on this in advance. You may already know this, but there are approximately 2.3 million cattle in the Irish beef herd and about 1.7 million dairy cows. So, if you live in Ireland, there’s a really good chance that you will (at some point in your life) have seen a cow. No big deal.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

JULY 21, 2010

Regular readers of this blog know that I've been involved in two successful nonprofit mergers, as well as a third attempt that was never consummated, and I've written several blog posts on my feelings about nonprofit mergers. Are there any times when you advise against a merger or alliance? Tom McLaughlin: Oh, sure, absolutely.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

JUNE 6, 2006

The Where Most Needed blog has an excellent posting on Charity Mergers Booming on Both Coasts. That, combined with a bit of arrogance and basic bad management, is what shut the doors, not competition from "too many" other nonprofits. There was no evidence given, or data to back this statement up.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 8, 2013

Last week, the FBI shut down the underground website known as "Silk Road" and confiscated the bitcoin wallet of Ross Ulbricht, the site operator, on drug charges. The estimated value of Ulbricht''s bitcoin wallet is $80 million, but the FBI has been unable to crack the encryption code. Escrow accounts were not as protected. Bitcoin Background.

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The Crazy Lives of Consultants

JANUARY 29, 2010

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The Nonprofit Consultant

NOVEMBER 15, 2006

I generally try to keep politics out of this blog (not always successful), but I thought this was an interesting short article in the Philanthropy News Digest: Nonprofit Leaders Weigh Impact of Election. Perry Wasserman, managing director of 501(c) Strategies, a D.C.-based This is posting number 100 at the Nonprofit Consultant Blog.

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