Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Longstanding workplace issues such as mistreatment, the normalization of toxic behaviour and a lack of accountability for workplace culture have fuelled a growing trend known as revenge quitting. Creating a genuine sense of belonging can reshape workplace culture, boost engagement and overall business success.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 1, 2025

Without time to reflect, innovation suffers, and leaders struggle to connect disparate ideas or generate fresh insights. To support this shift, I developed a structured approach that helps leaders pause, reflect, and see things differently before diving into the next wave of demands.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

Last month, I was honored to present and facilitate an all-day workshop for nonprofit leaders at the Oregon Nonprofit Leadership Conference on how to activate a culture of well being in the nonprofit workplace, based on my book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout. Here’s the list: Function.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Whether it’s brainstorming a long-dreamed-of children’s book for your cause or exploring a campaign idea that’s been on the back burner, passion makes the process more enjoyable. Provide enough context in a well-structured manner to ensure they can complete the task you ask of them.

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.orgSource

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Today, the idea is more mainstream. Groups that developed a structure and schedule for online meetings managed their time and effort more efficiently. It is also a fun and effective way to ease into conversations about communication, behavior, trust, and other interpersonal issues that are important to keeping culture on track.”

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sgEngage

MARCH 19, 2024

But for innovation to thrive, you must embrace a culture where the entire nonprofit is committed to enhancing processes or strategies by transforming ideas into actionable improvements. Based on these essays, we could determine how nonprofits are faring in the culture of innovation, and the steps you can take to harness such a culture.

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.orgSource

JULY 22, 2024

Part Two When the generative AI bots made their debut in early 2024, they signaled a definitive end to the idea that yesterday’s technology is good enough for today’s members. Organize the Effort A well-defined oversight and change management structure ensures that the right people are ready to lead that charge.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 8, 2025

Many organizations face resistance to change and rigid structures , rooted in a culture of adhering to traditional methods and relying on outdated processes, such as specific research methods, requests for proposals (RFPs), and typicaland at times wastefulprogram design.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

Similar to the list I shared for nonprofits focusing on education , arts and culture tends to be a very popular issue area for American foundations. The arts and culture focus areas in this list include performing arts, artists, art education programs, museums, visual arts, and beyond. Funding Priority: Arts & Culture.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 26, 2014

Here are some great tips and guiding principles for how a manager and leader can build a culture to foster creativity. Give a good idea to a mediocre team, and they will screw it up. But give a mediocre idea to a great team, and they will either fix it or come up with something better.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Whether you’re part of a nonprofit, a dynamic team, or an individual on a mission, having a well-defined strategy for quickly creating and sharing fresh ideas is a must-have in our times. To stay healthy, nonprofits must continually generate and share new ideas. We’ll have 20 minutes for idea generation. Give everybody a turn.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 9, 2023

Organizations that successfully navigate change management have also made culture shifts to ensure lasting change. There are 4 culture shifts that a nonprofit organization needs to make to maintain change management. Adopt a culture that values feedback. Adopt a culture that supports flexibility. Inviting creativity.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Introducing coaching into your culture is a good way to begin. To change that, we came up with a structure that allows for on-demand project work in blended, cross-functional teams. The idea that the employer holds all the cards is changing. The idea that the employer holds all the cards is changing.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 22, 2011

Both of these organizations have both been able to figure out how to bring people together across ages, cultures, etc. Wendy : First, there’s this idea that Millennials want to go their own way and be outside institutions. It’s been a fantastic journey to see the cultural shift mirroring the way business changes.

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Association TV

JULY 29, 2022

Corporate Culture. Do you have a culture club that organizes team-building activities and social events? The idea of an office, or a physical place in which a person sits down to work, isn’t new. When it came to company culture in previous centuries, your outlook as an employee was generally rough. Corporate Culture.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 26, 2013

To date I have primarily focused on finding your way into an entrepreneurial environment, identifying a good idea, as well as starting your own business with purpose and style. Another important factor investors care about is how the business is structured (like who owns what). Avoid making those mistakes and define a fair structure.

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.orgSource

JUNE 24, 2024

Even before COVID-19, the rapid pace of technology and its impact on culture was upending traditional business models. level: A flexible structure that allows for timely change : Look toward the future. Build a positive culture that includes a spectrum of skills, value diversity, equity, and inclusion in thought and demographics.

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.orgSource

MAY 28, 2024

That curiosity and engagement with others are reflected in her love of travel and learning about diverse countries and cultures. Providing personal support, fosters a culture of collaboration, inclusivity, and transparency.” It’s interesting how many conversations circle back to culture and trust.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 25, 2025

Here’s how we can take it further: Allow employees to pitch and lead their own initiatives, whether it’s process improvements, new product ideas, or research that aligns with company goals. Some overqualified employees feel constrained by rigid structures. My mom advised me to save my ideas in a notebook.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 30, 2017

Check any tech company’s ‘About Us’ page and you’ll likely see diversity highlighted as a pillar of the company culture. Companies are stronger when different ideas come together, and studies show non-homogenous groups have a better balance of leadership skills.

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sgEngage

JULY 17, 2023

You also worry about the well-being of your team and grantees but aren’t sure where to start with making a permanent shift from a burnout culture to a culture of well-being. To support your journey, here are three ways you can get started with cultivating a culture of well-being for your organization: 1.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 29, 2014

When you walk into Zappos, the first thing you notice is the unique structure of the building. In Hsieh’s book, “ Delivering Happiness ,” he writes about the 10 core values of Zappos culture, which include: Deliver WOW through service. culture training staff nonprofits libraries' Pursue growth and learning.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

But an inheritance of stale ideas sandbags growth and keeps value at bay. We’ve incorporated the structure that many groups say they want. Mark Soticheck, Chief Operating Officer at the North Carolina Association of CPAs , underscored that idea. The market feeds on a regular diet of unique ideas.

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Kindful

AUGUST 12, 2021

Similar to the list I shared for nonprofits focusing on education , arts and culture tends to be a very popular issue area for American foundations. The arts and culture focus areas in this list include performing arts, artists, art education programs, museums, visual arts, and beyond. Funding Priority: Arts & Culture.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Google DeepMind For unfolding the mysteries of structural biochemistry Google DeepMin d CEO Demis Hassabis and director of research John Jumper won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their parts in discovering and developing the AlphaFold AI models, which can predict the complex structures of virtually all known proteins.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 27, 2011

Question: Why is this a good idea? Answer: Many Americans want to access materials from other countries, both in English and many other languages, for education, employment and cultural reasons. UK, France, Spain) would have access to crucially important cultural, vocational and educational materials.

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.orgSource

MAY 29, 2023

Based on my anecdotal experience, most associations support the idea that a diverse leadership and workforce contributes to their success. Attaching benchmarks to your statement provides structure and something for people to work toward. Create a more inclusive culture by providing DEI training to directors and staff.

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.orgSource

MARCH 18, 2024

Both are steeped in the world of associations and are avid students of strategy, business, and culture beyond this industry. Sharon offered an idea that has been on my mind for some time. Beyond technology, there are cultural shifts that are making a major impact on the association community.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 3, 2025

It can be unfamiliar and uncomfortable, but in a culture where everyone leads, organizations start to make progress on their most difficult problems, explain the authors. We want to spread our counterculture leadership ideas far beyond the people we can reach through our in-person and Zoom-base programs. Dont get us wrong.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

We can’t do this without cultivating and enforcing a corporate culture of psychological safety: an environment where no one will be punished or shamed for speaking up with ideas, questions, concerns, or mistakes. Clear channels for raising new ideas to leadership and feedback loops for learning from things that we’re trying.

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 17, 2018

Establishing workplace culture isn’t easy. One way to combat the struggles of creating a workplace culture is to let it extend beyond the workplace. Make the culture in your office a lifestyle culture, and bring your staff along with you. And this makes sense: individuals have vastly different preferences and comforts.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2021

Expensify’s origin story is one of a scrappy group of developers who turned travel into a catalyst for ideas and stuck together through highs and lows, ending up building one of the most unexpectedly original companies in enterprise software today. We have a very unusual internal management structure. When David met Travis ….

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Apple employees are demanding more transparency and input than ever, and they’re doing it in public, in a way that challenges Apple’s secretive, top-down corporate culture. Because there is a big culture clash between those two companies, specifically around advertising. They like that element of the culture. It’s great.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

The Israeli company is only a year old, but has already tackled the structure of the whole cut, which is complex, co-founder and CEO Ofek Ron told TechCrunch. Its first product, Plantish salmon, mimics cooked salmon in taste, texture, appearance and structure, and has similar nutritional value of high protein and Omega-3.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2014

While participants in each track will explore their topics in depth and in the context of a facilitated structure, there will be inspiring keynotes and opportunities for networking for all participants. What great about this conference is that we will have creative immersion and change to “sleep on our ideas.”

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Our nonprofit’s culture ROCKS.”. While these ideas are a good starting point, company culture is so much more than a one-time activity here and a day-off there, or feeling the need to spend money to try to look fun. Company culture is the thread that weaves together the fabric that makes up your nonprofit scarf.

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.orgSource

MARCH 14, 2023

This climate of skepticism continues to spread throughout social, cultural, and governmental institutions. We were in the office full-time pre-COVID, so we had a strong internal culture,” Kristine noted. Now we’ve moved to a hybrid work structure, requiring that everyone be in office at least two days per week.

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