Here’s a way to reframe the the thinking of the culture…. ….change the words you use and change the thinking. I encourage you to discard the following words: Volunteer Agenda Recruit Motivate In over 40 years of music ministry, I determined that the work of the church music director is highly specialized work. It’s not solely about making music; it’s about transformation. Singers show up, and we transform them into a choir. Then we transform... Read more
Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success. – Henry Ford We are called into service as individuals, but we work in community in teams–both formal and informal. Whether we work on large teams, small teams or on short-term projects or ongoing programs does not matter. The tension between creative energy and routine is a balance that the effective leaders must manage. Each team member has a responsibility to the rest of the team. The... Read more
January 15, 2016 The Friday Forum today is about… Paradigms – The Way We Think About Charity is Dead Wrong View the video HERE The TED Talk by Dan Pallotta, with the title above, calls out the double standards that drive our broken relationships with charities. He makes some great points about paradigms that limit and often paralyze charities. James Allen, in his book, As A Man Thinketh* says that we don’t attract what we need, we attract what we are.... Read more
“You have inherited a lifetime of tribulation. Everybody has inherited it. Take it over, make the most of it and when you have decided you know the right way, do the best you can with it.” – Murray Bowen Leadership As We Have Been Taught is Wrong! This post has been inspired by the TED Talk by Dan Pallotta on “How We Think of Charity Is Way Wrong.” I must admit that I’ve been struggling with this topic for many, many years... Read more
If you do what you have always done, you will get what you have always gotten. – Andrew Carnegie Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. – Reinhold Niebuhr This blog is targeting the dumb things that nonprofit leaders do because we have been taught the wrong things about leadership and have inherited broken and dysfunctional systems. According to The Nonprofit Times, more than 45 percent of young nonprofit professionals surveyed recently predicted their next job would not be at a charity. The respondents... Read more
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