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Why is real teamwork so rare?

ASU Lodestar Center

Management philosophy is stuck in the past. Every manager knows the value of teamwork. The problem is the organizational structure in most nonprofits prevents it. The problem is that with the quickly changing landscape of today’s challenges the assembly line concept is not agile enough to adapt to those changes.

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4 Ways Your Grantmaking Organization Can Stay Relevant to Your Community’s Changing Needs

sgEngage

Managing a mission while meeting the evolving needs of a community is a complex and dynamic process. As communities change and grow, their needs and priorities shift. This could be as simple as adjusting your guidelines to compensate for changing economics or as complicated as creating new grants and programs to meet those needs.

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The Unanticipated Benefits of Content Curation: Build Staff Expertise and Reduce Information Overload

NTEN

Rather than another potential recipe for information overload, content curation can actually be a method to tackle this problem. They know the grapes, the winemaker and their techniques, and vintages. The problem is our information consumption —we’re indulging too much at the buffet called the web. And guess what?

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Defining Your IT Roles: Project Management as a Process

NTEN

They're the ones who understand best how it will fit into the organization and how it will change people's jobs. Because they're so close to the action, as it were, we've found that users have an overwhelming desire to prescribe solutions instead of seeking help with problems. We still believe technology can help create change.

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Nonprofit Consulting Firms: 26 Leaders in Their Spaces

DNL OmniMedia

The most effective nonprofit consulting projects will address immediate problems and provide long-term strategic value that helps you grow. Advancement Resources – Managing Culture Change. Succession planning for executive changes. Advancement Resources: Top Nonprofit Consulting Firm for Managing Culture Change.

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Know When To Change Your Decision

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Tuesday, August 17, 2010 Know When To Change Your Decision Leaders make decisions. Good leaders are willing to modify their decisions as changing circumstances and data dictate. Often, circumstances change and new information becomes available after a decision has been made. In fact, just the opposite is true. Don't Praise.

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Read "The Seven Arts Of Change"

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Monday, November 29, 2010 Read "The Seven Arts Of Change" David Shaners compelling, The Seven Arts of Change , shows business leaders that transforming a business only happens when each employee equates organizational change with the process of deep personal growth. The book came out earlier this month. Don't Praise.

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