Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 19, 2024

Assume responsibility for problems when things go wrong, and provide immediate praise and recognition to others when things go right. Create a work environment based on inclusiveness, welcoming others' suggestions and points of view. Deliver bad news quickly, constructively, and in a spirit of professional development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2012

Recently, our family took a homecoming trip to Cambodia where my kids were introduced to their birth country – and got to see the work of the Sharing Foundation first hand. While her parents were concerned about her safety, she kept going. Faber is a Philanthroteen.

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sgEngage

MARCH 6, 2024

This is a story about acknowledging how there isn’t one piece of software that can solve all your problems, which is why the extensibility of your systems is so important. Naturally, it will take a lot of time, training, and labor to get it up and running, but once it is all configured, it will solve all your problems. You did it!

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

“Very few of us ever learned how to be present with another person, to ignore internal and external noise and distractions, and to connect and converse with others in useful or collaborative ways,” affirm the authors of the new book, Bridge The Gap: Breakthrough Communication Tools To Transform Work Relationships From Challenging To Collaborative.

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John Kenyon

MARCH 4, 2024

Not a huge problem when it comes to spelling, but what about more serious information? It’s like when you’re teaching your pet goldfish to fetch – it might swim circles around the bowl instead. Let’s get real for a moment. ChatGPT, as brilliant as it is, isn’t infallible. So, why does this happen?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Liz Wiseman 's book, Rookie Smarts , is all about living and working perpetually on a learning curve. She contends that we do our best work when we are new to something. And, she teaches us how to reclaim and cultivate the curious, flexible and youthful mindset called "rookie smarts." You are busy but bored.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2011

How Helpful is Teaching Nonprofits How to Fish? When thinking about fundraising, many nonprofits and funders believe in the old adage, “Give a person a fish, and you feed him for a day; teach a person to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.” Essentially, the work was more transactional than transformational. What you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2014

I love teaching (and learning) and it was a pleasure to work with students, nonprofits, and faculty. I also learned a lot working along side Nancy Smyth , Dean of the School of Social Work. Here’s a few frameworks and techniques I learned first hand from Nancy as she accompanied me to the sessions I was leading.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2022

“Helping others is a good thing, but even the most well-intentioned attempts can be undermined by a simple truth: We almost always focus on “fixing” people – correcting problems or filling the gaps between where they are and where we think they should be. Unfortunately, this doesn’t inspire sustained learning or positive change.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Plus, I still had a full-time job, so I could only work on it nights and weekends. What took longer was actually convincing myself that writing a book teaching salespeople how to be better storytellers would make the world a better place. Paul : Lead with a Story was the most challenging from a time and effort standpoint.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Perhaps write down five to ten and then between now and January 1, think about which couple you want to work on during 2024. To get you started, how about selecting one or more of these 70 New Year's resolutions for leaders?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2014

workforce -- work from home at least one or two days a week. If you are a leader of work-from-home employees, share the book, There''s No Place Like Working From Home , with them. Share it particularly with an employee new to working from his or her home. Working From Home'

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 22, 2023

Furthermore, the outdated model that worked well at one time—identifying a problem and creating a program designed to solve it—is giving way to new, muti-sector approaches to create public value.” Involve people closest to the problem. Eggers & Kettl : Making policy work isn’t a spectator sport. Knock down barriers.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 19, 2024

Prepare their company and their team for the future of work. Teach company leaders the key to developing strategies that bring long-term success. It solves problems. Create a company culture based on coaching versus dictating. React and adapt to unpredictable or unprecedented crises. It comes up with answers. It innovates.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

However, that is not what you are paid for, and when you dive into a problem that calls for your technical expertise you lose hours of the most precious commodity of all—time. Because you did the work yourself, your organization is no better equipped to do the work next time. And, your team members learn nothing.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

As we wrote in The Smart Nonprofit: Staying Human-Centered in an Age of AI , when used responsibly , AI can help nonprofit staff reduce the countless hours they spend doing labor-intensive and often energy-draining tasks—so they can focus instead on mission-critical work. This is called “co-botting” or “co-piloting” with AI.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 15, 2016

workforce -- work from home at least one or two days a week. If you are a leader of work-from-home employees, share the book, There's No Place Like Working From Home , with them. Share it particularly with an employee new to working from his or her home. More than 40 million people -- roughly one-third of the U.S.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 28, 2024

If you want to learn how to more effectively embrace change, read Build For Tomorrow , by Jason Feifer , Editor in chief of Entrepreneur magazine and host of the podcasts Build For Tomorrow and Problem Solvers. “My Therefore, Feifer teaches that: When in the Panic phase of change , pause when other panic. But, that's not how it works.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 6, 2024

Fortunately, Wiggins’s new book, The New CEO , fills that educational gap by teaching you the 10 components that make for a successful CEO transition – whether you are a newly announced or newly appointed CEO. Be honest about the culture—how you assess it, work to shift it, and ensure it does not derail your transition.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

This book is the result of what we have learned teaching leadership and business acumen classes to rising and senior leaders at Fortune 500 companies for twenty years,” share authors Nathan Kracklauer and Bjorn Billhardt. I found this concept difficult -- does the problem lie with me?"

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 15, 2022

“Helping others is a good thing, but even the most well-intentioned attempts can be undermined by a simple truth: We almost always focus on “fixing” people – correcting problems or filling the gaps between where they are and where we think they should be. Unfortunately, this doesn’t inspire sustained learning or positive change.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Assume responsibility for problems when things go wrong, and provide immediate praise and recognition to others when things go right. Create a work environment based on inclusiveness, welcoming others' suggestions and points of view. Deliver bad news quickly, constructively, and in a spirit of professional development.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 29, 2022

“Helping others is a good thing, but even the most well-intentioned attempts can be undermined by a simple truth: We almost always focus on “fixing” people – correcting problems or filling the gaps between where they are and where we think they should be. Unfortunately, this doesn’t inspire sustained learning or positive change.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 5, 2021

It’s the gift of having my children teach me that everyday actions can make a world of difference. Children are teaching their parents that everyday actions can make a world of difference. Learn about the problem, the effects, and the solutions. I think this is my gift from my kids this Mom’s Day — and it sure beats flowers.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 28, 2022

Assume responsibility for problems when things go wrong, and provide immediate praise and recognition to others when things go right. Create a work environment based on inclusiveness, welcoming others' suggestions and points of view. Deliver bad news quickly, constructively, and in a spirit of professional development.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 20, 2024

But just as a microwave can’t teach culinary skills, generic AI can’t inherently understand your organization’s unique voice, mission, or brand. We are watching ‘AI Microwaves’ get added to every writing ‘kitchen’ we work with. Microwaves: They don’t make chefs better, just quicker.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

“Helping others is a good thing, but even the most well-intentioned attempts can be undermined by a simple truth: We almost always focus on “fixing” people – correcting problems or filling the gaps between where they are and where we think they should be. Unfortunately, this doesn’t inspire sustained learning or positive change.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 24, 2018

We worked together for over 35 years, from the very beginnings of my Silicon Valley career. He considered himself a “problem-solving lawyer” and warned me against getting involved with “problem-creating lawyers!” Gerry enabled my life’s work in so many ways!

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TechImpact

MAY 29, 2014

Websites teach, viewers are not listening. Chances are good you’ve had a discussion where you’ve thought of your nonprofit’s website as a teaching tool. An online beacon where visitors can come to learn about all the great work your nonprofit is doing to solve a problem potentially millions of people are facing every day.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 27, 2021

Liz Wiseman 's book, Rookie Smarts , is all about living and working perpetually on a learning curve. She contends that we do our best work when we are new to something. And, she teaches us how to reclaim and cultivate the curious, flexible and youthful mindset called "rookie smarts." You are busy but bored.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 24, 2022

Assume responsibility for problems when things go wrong, and provide immediate praise and recognition to others when things go right. Create a work environment based on inclusiveness, welcoming others' suggestions and points of view. Deliver bad news quickly, constructively, and in a spirit of professional development.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 5, 2021

“Helping others is a good thing, but even the most well-intentioned attempts can be undermined by a simple truth: We almost always focus on “fixing” people – correcting problems or filling the gaps between where they are and where we think they should be. Unfortunately, this doesn’t inspire sustained learning or positive change.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 15, 2016

One of the core problems that many nonprofits face is that although we work to serve or protect people or resources that are often called “priceless,” this failure to monetize our causes has the ironic effect of rendering them valueless. But how does this work for other nonprofit messaging? The value of natural capital.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

A community group worked hard to get her placed on the historic register and raise money to restore her to her mid-century glory. This new genre of video games are about solving real world problems such as environment, global hunger, poverty and disease. When I was a kid, Lucy the Elephant , was in a state of disrepair.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Assume responsibility for problems when things go wrong, and provide immediate praise and recognition to others when things go right. Create a work environment based on inclusiveness, welcoming others' suggestions and points of view. Deliver bad news quickly, constructively, and in a spirit of professional development.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Today brings the new book, Build For Tomorrow , by Jason Feifer , Editor in chief of Entrepreneur magazine and host of the podcasts Build For Tomorrow and Problem Solvers. “My Therefore, Feifer teaches that: When in the Panic phase of change , pause when other panic. But, that's not how it works. Change is coming.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Assume responsibility for problems when things go wrong, and provide immediate praise and recognition to others when things go right. Create a work environment based on inclusiveness, welcoming others' suggestions and points of view. Deliver bad news quickly, constructively, and in a spirit of professional development.

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