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Innovation is a fact…not a mystery

If we are to agree on one premise, it is that organizations must constantly be reinventing the way that they are successful…this means operations, marketing, IT, etc. This means that when you hear a term being thrown around like “innovation,” it shouldn’t be surrounded by a cloud of mystery. In fact, the process of reinventing your […]

Let’s talk metrics…

If you read enough about business and the world, you will hear talk about this being the era of “big data." I’m not sure that we need an era for that… Here’s why: * We have always had access to tons of data and information, it is what we do with the data that is […]

10 Concepts Nonprofits Need To Be Thinking About…

A lot of time nonprofits get jammed up because they feel like the only thing that matters in their work is doing good. But for many nonprofits, the real challenge is actually thinking more like a business. If you don’t, you won’t have the ability to do the work that makes a difference. This […]

Looking for improvement

There are very few miracles in business. And when I am called in to work on organizational performance issues, I tell my clients up front that there isn’t likely to be some miracle cure to their issue. That being said, you can control a great deal of the variables when you are trying to change […]

3 Things You Keep Hearing And Why They Aren’t True

We get a lot of advice, and most of it is bad… Here are 3 things you hear a lot and why they are totally false: 1. You Can Build Your Brand On Social Media: This is flat out wrong and here is why…social media is a tool, and if you don’t have a strong viewpoint […]

Ongoing Development

One of the challenges I see in a lot of organizations is that as they grow, they don’t do a very good job of on boarding their project based tasks into their operations. Another thing I see a lot, is a failure to develop and mentor team members, managers, and staff on some of the […]