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About
Our Mission & Beliefs
Our Team
Our Community
Our Clients
Recommendations
Blog: Don't Fence Me In
Who Are You?
Professional Associations
Whatcom and Skagit Nonprofits
What Do You Need?
Services
Our Board Members Are Bored
We Need Direction
Our Organization is Growing
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An Occassional Blog

Don't Fence Me In

 

Kirk Roberts
August 13, 2019

Trust Means More than Buy-In

Kirk Roberts
August 13, 2019

Too often in the nonprofit world we get lost in strategy and matrixes and spreadsheets. We are people—whether volunteer or paid—and trust is established between people, not between plans.

Tagged: leadership, nonprofit, taking chances, board relations, trust

Chris Crosser
June 4, 2019

Anatomy of a Mistake

Chris Crosser
June 4, 2019

I've discovered that I've made a mistake, and suddenly I'm six years old again.

Tagged: mistakes, personal growth, fear, taking chances

Kirk Roberts
May 8, 2019

Fly The Plane

Kirk Roberts
May 8, 2019

I was talking with an airline pilot and asked him how he was taught to handle a crisis.  He said there were three instructions: “Breath.  Look around.  Fly the plane.”

Tagged: stress, professionalism, leadership, management style, board members, nonprofit

Kirk Roberts
March 5, 2019

Patience and the Beauty of Board Self-Regulation

Kirk Roberts
March 5, 2019

Sometimes when conducting consultations with nonprofit Boards, one of my hardest tasks is to follow my second rule of meetings: Wait for it.

Tagged: board relations, management style

Kirk Roberts
January 12, 2019

Embracing the possibility of failure

Kirk Roberts
January 12, 2019

In our society, we tend to prize innovation, imagination, and outside-the-box thinking. In our internal nonprofit structures, we tend to prize … dogged resistance to change.

Tagged: innovation, mistakes, strategic planning

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