The premise of the book Jude Kaye and I wrote is that strategic planning is a process designed to make decisions and build commitment – the process can be short or long, expensive or not, and involve hundreds of people or just a few. It all depends on the situation. The key is that
Read More >Winston Churchill famously said “democracy is the worst form of government… except for all the others.” Nonprofit boards are a very local example of our democracy in action... I don't believe as many do that our boards are fundamentally broken...
Read More >I frequently work with Executive Directors as a management consultant and coach to help them prioritize how to spend their time and political capital and to think through some of the myriad “sticky wickets” that emerge in the course of the job. This type of engagement is often quite limited – an ho
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As an interim executive director at 10 different Bay Area nonprofits, I know that effective and custom-designed strategic planning is a must. I brought Mike in four times at different organizations to lead strategic planning. And although Mike literally wrote THE book on nonprofit strategic planning, each time we used an approach tailored to the [...]
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There has been a lot of talk, books written and speeches given about how dramatic environmental change makes strategic planning and strategic plans obsolete and irrelevant. I want to offer a counter perspective. While tactics and even significant decisions need to be adapted to changing circumstances, rather than becoming irrelevant a good strategic plan should [...]
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