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The Things That Don’t Change (opens the original)
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Leading when everything else seems to be changingI have spent much of the last year trying to keep up.With AI, certainly. That is the obvious one. A tool appears on Monday that seems remarkable, another appears on Thursday that makes the first one look quaint, and by the following Tuesday someone has written an obituary for the entire category. Things I assumed were three or four years away have arrived before I finished thinking about what their arrival might mean.But it isn’t only AI. The grou
The Plan Is (usually) Not The Problem (opens the original)
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Most nonprofit leaders I talk with do not need another strategic plan.They have one. The board approved it. It is usually pretty good.What they do not have is anyone with room to execute it.That gap tends to appear in a few recognizable moments.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dcYw!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fde999576-9040-46ca-9ade-fcb46807529e_2000x1333.
Everything Was a Good Idea Once (opens the original)
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Everything Was a Good Idea OnceI just spent the better part of three days cleaning up the small systems that had quietly accumulated around my life: subscriptions I no longer needed, automated reminders I had stopped noticing, newsletters I once opened faithfully and now deleted without reading, apps that had been useful for a particular season but remained on my phone long after that season had ended. None of these things were foolish when I started them. That was what made the cleanup strangel
The AI Problem Nonprofits Are About to Discover Isn’t AI (opens the original)
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The AI Problem… Isn’t AIOver the past year, I’ve had some version of the same conversation with a growing number of nonprofit leaders.“We’re using AI.”Usually that means a handful of people have begu… Read more
September Is The Real New Year (opens the original)
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Even though the calendar says otherwise, my body tells me that Labor Day is really New Year’s Day.Perhaps it’s all those years on a school calendar, followed by decades in nonprofit work where September meant the beginning of everything. Volunteers returned. Programs launched. Calendars filled. Summer’s permission to move a little more slowly disappeared, and suddenly everyone was asking what we were going to accomplish this year.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://images.
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