Tag: nonprofit strategic planning
Leveraging a Rich Innovation Asset: Your Board
During our discussion of board engagement in strategic innovation in a CEO workshop I conducted recently, four or five participants lamented that critical, well- conceived innovation initiatives that their boards had formally approved ultimately ended up on the shelf. One …
The Change Investment Portfolio: A Practical Tool For Transformational Change Leaders
The November 6 post at this blog features JJ Harris, President of the Clay County Economic Development Corporation, as a prime example of a new-style chief executive: the Transformational Change Leader. The post describes 5 key attributes of CEOs who …
Disney’s Innovator-in-Chief Robert Iger: CEO Visionary Par Excellence
“What can I do to get my board meaningfully engaged in leading innovation and change in my organization?” I hear variations of this very important question quite often from CEOs in my one-on-one governance coaching sessions and educational workshops. There’s …
The Creativity-Innovation Nexus: Part One of Our Creativity Series
The innovation process – and the role of the chief executive as your organization’s “Chief Innovation Officer” – has been a major focus of this blog, and several posts have featured real-life cases of successful implementation of significant innovation initiatives. …
Sue Buchholtz: Serial Social Entrepreneur
Sue Buchholtz, then President & CEO of The Spring, a nonprofit serving victims of domestic violence, made a vivid impression when I first met her in early 2002, shortly after my wife Barbara and I had relocated to Tampa Bay …
Taking Core Values Seriously at the Association Forum of Chicagoland
A couple of months ago I was sitting in on a meeting of the board planning committee and CEO of a large regional nonprofit corporation engaged in regional economic and community development. This was the first of three committee meetings …
CEO Rob Paterkiewicz on Updating Selected Independent Funeral Homes’ Business Model
I’m pleased to share the fourth podcast in this blog’s ongoing series on updating nonprofit business models, featuring Rob Paterkiewicz, Executive Director and CEO of Selected Independent Funeral Homes, a national trade association. You’ll recall that the May 18 post …
Nonprofit Business Models Redux
Updating nonprofit business models has been a major theme of this blog, with posts featuring podcasts by Richard Browdie, CEO of the Benjamin Rose Institute on Aging (November 13, 2017: https://extraordinaryceo.com/involving-board-strategic-organizational-development/); Rick Homans, CEO of the Tampa Bay Partnership, …
The Miami Lighthouse: An Innovation Engine on CEO Virginia Jacko’s Watch
Virginia Jacko and I tell her incredible true story in our book The Blind Visionary (www.GovernanceEdge.com): losing her eyesight while serving as a senior financial executive at Purdue University; starting all over as a vocational rehabilitation student at …
Involving Your Board in Strategic Organizational Development
Every truly extraordinary nonprofit and public sector CEO I’ve observed over the years has made leading strategic change a top priority, wearing what I call the “Innovator-in-Chief” hat. In a rapidly changing and frequently quite challenging world, this makes the …
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