Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 13, 2025

Extreme Teams is a fascinating book by Robert Bruce Shaw , where he takes you inside top companies and examines not just great teams (your more conventional teams), but extreme teams. According to Shaw, extreme teams : View work as a calling even an obsession. Pursue a limited set of vital priorities less is more.

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.orgSource

APRIL 1, 2025

The rapid pace of digital transformation, changing member expectations, and economic uncertainty require associations to rethink their business models and adapt to new realities. Do we encourage cross-functional collaboration between teams? The association industry is at a crossroads.

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.orgSource

JUNE 25, 2023

A spontaneous cruise of the office was an effective strategy for evaluating a variety of business indicators. The desire to be fully aware of the strengths and weaknesses of your team drives this type of evaluation. Identify Your Team The HR staff could take the lead on this project. Remember Management by Walking Around?

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 17, 2024

For lean accounting teams, this can be especially challenging, as each member is critical to maintaining the flow of operations. The Value of AP Clerks and Bookkeepers Your accounting team has organizational knowledge and relationships that can never be replaced by an automated workflow, no matter how sophisticated.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 14, 2025

Years ago, while working at a regional bank, I was promoted from trainer to leading a training team in another department. A helpful response might be, Thats true, and moving forward, my focus is on working on this strategic project development for my team. Instead of me, my team will be leading these events.

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Greater Giving

DECEMBER 2, 2024

7 Must-Have Members of Your Nonprofit’s Fundraising Team With a dedicated nonprofit fundraising team, you’ll execute more effective strategies, plan impactful events, and attain more funding for your mission. That’s where this guide comes in—we’ll discuss the must-have members of your nonprofit’s fundraising team.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 14, 2024

For fundraising teams, strategically leveraging workplace giving programs can unlock new revenue streams, strengthen donor relationships, and maximize the impact of their campaigns. Regular workshops and refresher courses can keep your team updated on the latest trends, tools, and regulations surrounding workplace giving.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 11, 2025

As a high-performance coach and leadership expert, I spend my time consulting with leaders and their teams, challenging them to do better thinking and extract the value of their collective capacity. Burnout is a global issue, costing humans their well-being and businesses millions in lost productivity.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

To increase visibility, create co-branded QR codes that integrate the business’s branding alongside your nonprofit’s. Clear Calls to Action: Use concise prompts like “Scan to Donate” or “Join our Volunteer Team.”

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

In an era of rapid change, when teams look to leaders for stability and direction, trust is the invisible currency that fuels organizational success. Ive conducted some myself, including work on how trust is essential for leaders in cross-cultural business environments. Here are a few insights: Empower your team.

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Achieve

OCTOBER 25, 2024

On the businesses’ side, Double the Donation’s statistics speak for themselves: 55% of employees say they would take a lower salary to work for a socially responsible company. Nonprofits and businesses alike understand that CSR is here to stay. Takeaways for Businesses Adopt an ESG approach. Track ESG impact.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 25, 2025

Start by identifying colleagues in different teams whose work interests you. After we talked about cross-departmental networking, she connected with our marketing team and discovered they needed help interpreting customer data. Your advanced perspective lets you spot opportunities others simply can’t see.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 7, 2025

My husband and I had just moved to a new city, bought our first house, adopted a dog, and I had recently started my own business. From staff supporting my husband in those crucial first hours to my care team treating me as a personcalling me by name and letting me choose my meals for six weeksI felt seen, heard, and valued.

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NonProfit PRO

MARCH 7, 2023

Day-to-day business management is where KPIs can make a difference for your nonprofit. By using a handful of metrics that everyone agrees on, you can organize tasks, rally the team, and get everyone focused on the right kind of work.

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Association Analytics

JULY 20, 2021

Or do you need something custom to meet your business objectives? Creating your unique product requires a dedicated team with the appropriate skills. Once your solution is deployed, you need to budget for ongoing maintenance costs and for any unexpected enhancement requests once your team starts using it.

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Allegiance Group

JANUARY 8, 2025

If the team at Intermountain could understand the path, they would be in a better position to make it smoother and more rewarding. The team at Intermountain Health used their existing donor data to identify the new donors they wanted to focus on. We [discovered that we] weren’t really using our data as well as we’d hoped.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 24, 2025

Consider gathering a group of internal subject matter expertswhether that be business, technology, legal, and communications expertsto drive strategy and develop standards for your organizations ethical and responsible use of AI. This group is extremely crucial in providing motivation and encouragement to their teams. Definitely.

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NonProfit PRO

JUNE 17, 2022

Ask anyone in the nonprofit field — nonprofits are always busy. At the same time, they’re often operating with small teams and budgets. These organizations carry out essential and urgent duties. As a result, nonprofits need to work hard, smart and fast.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Many professionals overlook their peer relationships, focusing instead on managing up to satisfy their boss or managing down to lead their teams performance. Map your landscape Start by listing all the colleagues who are critical to your teams mission and your success as a leader. Reflect on their business mission and goals.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 11, 2023

What’s more, golfers tap into their personal and professional networks to fill their team for your tournament, which raises more awareness about your mission and subsequently broadens your donor base. Automating registration removes a ton of administrative burden from you and your planning team.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 18, 2025

In a business environment where innovation dictates success, curiosity serves as the catalyst for breakthroughs and industry reinvention. According to a Harvard Business Review study , curiosity fosters openness and collaboration while reducing decision-making errors. with How can we create more value with fewer resources?

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

This lack of clarity not only delayed corrective actions but also created friction and mistrust among the leadership team. Research suggests that aligning business strategy with organizational culture can significantly impact performance. Map out how each division, team, and role contributes to achieving these goals.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 19, 2025

That changed in 2021, when NIL legislation empowered athletes to sign endorsement deals, monetize their social media, and collect appearance fees, ending the era in which players could lose eligibility for something as simple as eating too much pasta at a team banquet. NFL teams are embracing this new reality. million by year four.

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VentureBeat

APRIL 8, 2025

Team Liquid, the global esports organization, has unveiled a collaboration with Wildcard, the 2v2 action game with collectible card mechanics. Read More

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

Now, the team plans to expand the initiative to Paris and Lviv, Ukraine. In downtown Reykjavk, most buildings date back to the 18th century with storefronts that sit slightly elevated above street level, making one or two steps a recurring access barrier across most of the citys core business district.

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Association Analytics

MARCH 16, 2023

Do your systems enable staff members to easily extract the data they need to make solid business decisions? Does your team feel comfortable with the quality of the data? Members of the leadership team should become accustomed to asking for data to support requests for additional budget and new initiatives.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Peer-to-Peer and Team Fundraising. 2) Peer-to-Peer and Team Giving. Peer-to-peer and team giving empower individual supporters and groups to fundraise on a nonprofit’s behalf. How do Peer-to-Peer and Team Fundraising Work? What’s the Difference Between Peer-to-Peer and Team Fundraising? Major Gifts.

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Association Analytics

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Share Tools with the Whole Team. When your team understands how your members are engaging with you, Reggie said they’ll be empowered to more effectively work with your most — and least — engaged members and take appropriate action. Changing the Way Your Association Does Business for the Better. And you know what? “I

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 14, 2025

Our focus is on creating products that empower organizations to harness the right data, in the right context, with the right front-end to meet your organizations needs where theyre at, so you can act to enable program teams to craft impactful stories, deliver their programs effectively, and raise more funds.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

At the same time, marketing teams were facing an uphill battle to prove ROI as new digital marketing opportunities, like the rise of video content marketing and the shift towards mobile, led to changing tactics, and budgets came under more scrutiny. Now, a decade later, human resources teams are facing similar circumstances.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 24, 2025

Porcini opened a flagship design center in NYC in 2012, then following its success, he added 18 more across the world, creating a team that swelled to 400 designers globally. He also published the business memoir The Human Side of Innovation: The Power of People in Love with People , in 2022.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

How to Onboard Your Team of AI Agents to Transform Your Enterprise : Adel El Hallak, senior director of product management at NVIDIA, will share how NVIDIA AI Blueprints building blocks for agentic AI empower enterprises to easily compose and deploy teams of agents to achieve dynamic data retrieval and real-time interactivity.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 1, 2025

The challenges of any agency or client team continue to escalate. We need radiators, not drains, in our teams and our businesses. But we also know that our team needs us on our feet and to find a way forward. Sadly thats the job, which is why protecting yourself and your leadership team from it can be so useful.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Within many companies, Business Continuity works tirelessly to align all business units, secure leadership approval for processes, and allocate the necessary support for such events. Talk to your leadership team about the importance of relief funding being readily available. Activate your campaigns.

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VentureBeat

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Despite massive success, the team-based shooter from NetEase was unable to stave off layoffs on its North American side. Read More

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Ars Technica

APRIL 8, 2025

Hatsushima is not a particularly busy station, relative to Japanese rail commuting as a whole. In one overnight, teams assembled a shelter that is 2.6 It serves a town ( Arida ) of about 25,000, known for mandarin oranges and scabbardfish , that is shrinking in population, like most of Japan.

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VentureBeat

MARCH 27, 2025

Animoca Brands partnered with Sony's Soneium blockchain to develop Moca Networks identity layer and launch San FranTokyos anime initiatives on Soneium. Read More

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