The Strategic Thinker-Leader
For those who read my “5 Reasons Why ‘Strategic Doing’ Beats Strategic Planning” post, it will come as no surprise that I spend a fair amount of time thinking about, critiquing, and doing strategy. Truth be told, strategy is a bit of an obsession for me, more creative art and less a science, despite what […]
Why Strategic Doing Beats Strategic Planning
One of these days I’m going to sit down and write a treatise on why I believe strategic thinking and strategic leadership are more valuable than strategic planning — particularly, but not only, in a not-for-profit context. I’m going to do it, I promise, but not today. I’m too busy doing stuff. So apparently was Southwest Airline’s legendary founder and CEO […]
Raising NextGen Givers
This is the second post in a three-part series. Click here for part one, “Going Long: Building a Legacy of Family Philanthropy.” In my experience, accumulated over the course of a professional career working with and observing philanthropy and philanthropists, I believe there is a strong argument to be made for multi-generational philanthropy based on the […]
Multi-Generational Models that Work
This is the third post in a three-part series. Click here for part one, “Going Long: Building a Legacy of Family Philanthropy,” and part 2, “Raising the Next Generation of Givers.” If you have not read the first two posts in this series, I encourage you to take a few minutes to do so now. In […]