Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 30, 2019

Flashback to this post from early 2015 : After reading nearly 40 books about leadership released this year, my pick for the very best is the book, The Front-Line Leader: Building a High-Performance Organization from the Ground Up , by Chris Van Gorder. You’ll find the 200-page book easy to read. Find those employers.

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sgEngage

MARCH 15, 2024

They measure non-financial or financial criteria that reflect the efficacy of an organization, program, or initiative. This category could include volunteer time, equipment, how many books were provided by a corporate partner, etc. Metrics for outcomes should include all measures that reflect organizational performance.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

“All businesses sooner or later face the need to reconstruct their future,” explain the authors of the new book, The Phoenix Encounter Method. Therefore, this book shares a new method of leadership thinking – the Phoenix Encounter – relevant to all organizations in today’s ever-changing environment.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

“All businesses sooner or later face the need to reconstruct their future,” explain the authors of the book, The Phoenix Encounter Method. Therefore, this book shares a new method of leadership thinking – the Phoenix Encounter – relevant to all organizations in today’s ever-changing environment.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 23, 2023

“Workarounds are effective, versatile, and accessible methods for tackling complex problems,” shares the author of the new book, The Four Workarounds. In Part 1 of this fascinating and instructional book, author and Oxford University professor, Paulo Savaget , explains what workarounds are and how to come up with them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

” He kept us updated and constantly inspired with his positive attitude. He was working and completed his legacy book, Donor Care. One simple way we can all honor John is to purchase some books, not only for ourselves, but to share his wisdom with others in the nonprofit marketing field.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2019

The First-Time Leader book by George Bradt and Gillian Davis begins with a discussion of taking charge of your new team and then tracks through BRAVE leadership components from the outside in. The term reflects an acronym that stands for behaviors, relationships, attitudes, values and environment.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 1, 2021

Check out the definitive book on servant leadership. You're sure to take lots of notes as you capture advice from this powerful book, where as John C. Finally, I found powerful the list below shared by basketball player Tamika Catchings as she reflected on her time being coached by University of Tennessee basketball coach Pat Summitt.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 20, 2020

Check out the definitive book on servant leadership. You're sure to take lots of notes as you capture advice from this powerful book, where as John C. Finally, I found powerful the list below shared by basketball player Tamika Catchings as she reflected on her time being coached by University of Tennessee basketball coach Pat Summitt.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 26, 2018

The First-Time Leader book by George Bradt and Gillian Davis begins with a discussion of taking charge of your new team and then tracks through BRAVE leadership components from the outside in. The term reflects an acronym that stands for behaviors, relationships, attitudes, values and environment.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 15, 2021

Check out the definitive book on servant leadership. You're sure to take lots of notes as you capture advice from this powerful book, where as John C. Finally, I found powerful the list below shared by basketball player Tamika Catchings as she reflected on her time being coached by University of Tennessee basketball coach Pat Summitt.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Be sure to read the definitive book on servant leadership. You're sure to take lots of notes as you capture advice from this powerful book, where as John C. It's a curated collection of incredibly insightful and motivational perspectives on servant leadership via essays by 44 servant leaders.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 2, 2018

The First-Time Leader book by George Bradt and Gillian Davis begins with a discussion of taking charge of your new team and then tracks through BRAVE leadership components from the outside in. The term reflects an acronym that stands for behaviors, relationships, attitudes, values and environment.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 31, 2014

The forthcoming First-Time Leader book by George Bradt and Gillian Davis begins with a discussion of taking charge of your new team and then tracks through BRAVE leadership components from the outside in. The term reflects an acronym that stands for behaviors, relationships, attitudes, values and environment.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 6, 2019

Coherence: The Secret Science of Brilliant Leadership is the book by author Dr. Alan Watkins. Kind of feels like a medical text book in parts. Metaphors : stylized stories used to reflect culture. Prepare to spend quality time reading Coherence. It's not light reading. But, it's worth your commitment to it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

” This post shares my notes from that session along with a reflection about my session and some resources. That they have a “Do good where ever attitude.” The New Social Economy. This session was a high level view of what is happening in the ecosystem in which I do my work. They want to combine both.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 26, 2019

Be sure to read the definitive book on servant leadership. You're sure to take lots of notes as you capture advice from this powerful book, where as John C. A curated collection of incredibly insightful and motivational perspectives on servant leadership via essays by 44 servant leaders.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 18, 2014

Coherence: The Secret Science of Brilliant Leadership is the new book by author Dr. Alan Watkins. Kind of feels like a medical text book in parts. Metaphors : stylized stories used to reflect culture. Thanks to the book''s authors for sending me an advance copy of the book. It''s not light reading.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2010

We had a range of attitudes about the value of social media. One of the common things I hear when teach workshops on social media is “We don’t have the time.&# We make the point in the book that if nonprofits make the shift from scarcity to abundance thinking – they will be able to leverage their networks.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

Coherence: The Secret Science of Brilliant Leadership is the new book by author Dr. Alan Watkins. Kind of feels like a medical text book in parts. Metaphors : stylized stories used to reflect culture. Coherence Dr. Alan Watkins Eric Jacobson on Leadership and Management Leadership Leadership Books'

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 13, 2014

The First-Time Leader book by George Bradt and Gillian Davis begins with a discussion of taking charge of your new team and then tracks through BRAVE leadership components from the outside in. The term reflects an acronym that stands for behaviors, relationships, attitudes, values and environment.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Be sure to read the definitive book on servant leadership. You're sure to take lots of notes as you capture advice from this powerful book, where as John C. A curated collection of incredibly insightful and motivational perspectives on servant leadership via essays by 44 servant leaders.

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NTEN

APRIL 26, 2012

While we were busy catching up on sleep, we also spent a lot of time reflecting on the experience. We didn’t realize quite the risk we took booking the Extra Action Marching Band to open the NTC, though. It’s hard to believe that the 2012 NTC is a wrap. Amazing social discourse!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Interesting to discover a line from the book, “Social Media is a contact sport, not a spectator sport&# was a conversation driver. If you were not able to attend, there is terrific coverage of the event. Take for example this post from Rosita Cortez pointing to five videos of presentations.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 5, 2018

Tomorrow, March 6, brings the release of the new definitive book on servant leadership. You're sure to take lots of notes as you capture advice from this powerful book, where as John C. In the meantime, add this new book to your "must read soon" list. Thank you to the book publisher for sending me an advance copy of the book.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Coherence: The Secret Science of Brilliant Leadership is the book by author Dr. Alan Watkins. Kind of feels like a medical text book in parts. Metaphors : stylized stories used to reflect culture. Coherence Dr. Alan Watkins Eric Jacobson on Leadership and Management Leadership Books' It''s not light reading.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2011

Most of all, I want to master the ability to switch between connectedness and solitude. I will continue to practice and explore different ways to use visuals to aid reflection, including data visualization, visual thinking, structured frameworks, graphic facilitation, and more. Sense: Sensing is making sense of the information.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 26, 2015

But maybe that isn’t a bad thing as long as we: Take the time to reflect on why we didn’t keep it. Last weekend, I saw two movies, Birdman and Particle Fever , that portrayed very different attitudes towards success and failure. Look at it as one “experiment” in a long process. Hypothesis: What did I think the solution would be?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2020

This time each year, I select my pick for best new leadership and business book for the year. I selected this book because Magnuson tells it like it is, provides clear, practical, actionable advice and speaks with authenticity and in a conversational style that will resonate with young career professionals. Magnuson : So much!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2012

That’s exactly what the book, “Measuring the Networked Nonprofit,” that I wrote with KD Paine and will publish later this year is about it. The point that the report makes and I agree is that measurement needs to value both transformations and transactions – and that requires new attitudes and approaches.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2013

When nonprofits started to read and apply our book, ” Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” I noticed this tweet from the ACLU in NJ showing a white board capturing their team meetings to define success for social media. Change in attitude about your organization. Who is our audience and who do we want them to be?”

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 5, 2021

This time each year, I select my pick for best new leadership and business book for the year. I selected this book because Magnuson tells it like it is, provides clear, practical, actionable advice and speaks with authenticity and in a conversational style that will resonate with young career professionals. Magnuson : So much!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

When Maddie Grant at Social Fish invited me to do a FREE webinar over at the 365 Engage Community, I was thrilled to have an opportunity to reflect the practice of incorporating social media into instruction. All workshop participants will receive a discount coupon for the book. I've also learned I always get a mixed group.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially digital technology and social media related. Problem-solving and reflecting (Intellectual). In topics that I am also a subject matter expert, I draw from content in my books ,blog, content curation , or presentations.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 8, 2010

This is the second installment of a book discussion about Ray Oldenburg’s book The Great Good Place. Every Tuesday in June, this blog will feature a guest post examining some aspect of the book. One book was about farm life and the other about a knight and his dragon. Facebook discussion board here.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 9, 2021

And, football coach Bill Courtney tells many compelling stories in his book, Against The Grain. For me, each story and chapter gave me the opportunity for self-reflection. Takeaways from the book include Courtney's advice: The true measure of a person's character is how one handles one's failures, not successes. Read this book.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 26, 2007

Of course, there's a basic tension for museums that feel both "the obligation to be reflective and considerate, and the seeming imperative to react to emergent issues." In many cases, it's not the content but the attitudes with which content is presented that marks whether you are riding the crest of a new wave or adding to the fossil record.

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