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Surviving As A New Nonprofit: 12 Focus Areas For Nonprofit Leaders

Bloomerang

According to Forbes magazine, one quarter of fledgling nonprofits will close their doors this coming year and almost half will be gone within three years of founding. When your mission is effecting positive change it’s sometimes easy to overlook that at its heart a nonprofit is still a business model, with all the same ways of failing.

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Great Year-End Advice For Leaders

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Saturday, December 18, 2010 Great Year-End Advice For Leaders Lynn Flinn of EWF International in Tulsa, OK wrote the following in a recent newsletter. • Pick one characteristic about yourself that youd like to change and earnestly work on changing it. Thanks Lynn for this great end-of-the-year advice.

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Know When To Change Your Decision

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Tuesday, August 17, 2010 Know When To Change Your Decision Leaders make decisions. Good leaders are willing to modify their decisions as changing circumstances and data dictate. Often, circumstances change and new information becomes available after a decision has been made. . In fact, just the opposite is true.

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Read "The Seven Arts Of Change"

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Monday, November 29, 2010 Read "The Seven Arts Of Change" David Shaners compelling, The Seven Arts of Change , shows business leaders that transforming a business only happens when each employee equates organizational change with the process of deep personal growth. The book came out earlier this month.

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"Great Places To Work" Employee Perks

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Thursday, January 20, 2011 "Great Places To Work" Employee Perks StLouis magazine is featuring in its January issue 60 companies that they deemed "great places to work". . -- Eric Jacobson -- formerly a Senior Vice President at Penton Media in Overland Park, Kansas (Kansas City, MO). Then, use the web and social networking for research.

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The Five Points Of Professionalism

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Sunday, December 12, 2010 The Five Points Of Professionalism Heres more good advice from The Everything Coaching And Mentoring Book : Professional behavior on the job means that work habits are strong and consistent. . -- Eric Jacobson -- formerly a Senior Vice President at Penton Media in Overland Park, Kansas (Kansas City, MO).

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Ten More Ways To Be An Effective Leader

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Monday, July 5, 2010 Ten More Ways To Be An Effective Leader Here are 10 behaviors, techniques and tips you can use to be an effective leader: Respond to questions quickly and fully. Be willing to change your decisions. Explain how a change will affect employees feelings before, during and after the change is implemented.