Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 26, 2021

In her book, author Esther K. Sense & Respond teaches you how to use a structured feedback loop to: Create two-way conversations. Create collaboration. Create a learning culture. Pictured above are two books to add to your list for reading this month. And at the heart of persuasion likes storytelling.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 8, 2020

In her book, author Esther K. Sense & Respond teaches you how to use a structured feedback loop to: Create two-way conversations. Create collaboration. Create a learning culture. Pictured above are two books to add to your list for reading this month. And at the heart of persuasion likes storytelling.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Structural barriers to success The nonprofit sector is highly competitive, with organizations often competing for the same limited resources. Immigration status For individuals who are not citizens, or who are not authorized to work in the US, their immigration status can create additional barriers to social mobility.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 30, 2023

Having conducted extensive field research, Ranjay Gulati , author of the book, Deep Purpose , The Heart and Soul of High-Performance Companies , reveals the fatal mistakes leaders unwittingly make when attempting to implement a reason for being. “My Question: How does purpose create trust, autonomy and collaboration?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Therefore, it’s imperative that as a business leader you have the essential meta-skill to navigate your business with a thorough understanding of your current situation, vision to see the future destination, and the ability to create the path to reach it,” explains Rich Horwath , author of the new book, Strategic. Horwath : Killing meetings.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Having conducted extensive field research, Ranjay Gulati , author of the book, Deep Purpose , The Heart and Soul of High-Performance Companies , reveals the fatal mistakes leaders unwittingly make when attempting to implement a reason for being. “My Question: How does purpose create trust, autonomy and collaboration?

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Strategies for effective and collaborative idea generation How can you ensure that your ideas not only get heard, but also gain traction within a brainstorming group? It needs to be captured in a group memory, readily available for all to see—something I learned years ago from Michael Doyle, author of How to Make Meetings Work.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 6, 2022

To optimize donor experience, nonprofits must challenge clunky manual processes that can be replaced with integrated payments and platforms and donor-centric, cross-functional collaboration. Silos within fundraising teams and collaboration with other internal teams — already under increasing tension — must ultimately be challenged and reset.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 1, 2012

He is the author of the popular Less-Is-More Blog on the People-OntheGo.com website. I believe that the appetite for risk is very much a cultural norm that is influenced by the price of failure and the cost of experimentation. Pierre Khawand is a guest blogger with more than 20 years of experience in the software industry.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 30, 2022

In a 2021 survey by NonprofitHR , more than a third of those surveyed (35%) said they left their jobs due to dissatisfaction or disengagement with the current organization or culture. About the Authors. Why are people leaving their jobs? An article in Harvard Business Review says workers are feeling lonely, tired, and burned out.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 5, 2022

Having conducted extensive field research, Ranjay Gulati , author of the book, Deep Purpose , The Heart and Soul of High-Performance Companies , reveals the fatal mistakes leaders unwittingly make when attempting to implement a reason for being. “My Question: How does purpose create trust, autonomy and collaboration?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Today, the following 10 leadership and business book authors answered this question for me: Question: While we surely will find ourselves challenged by COVID-19 in the foreseeable future, what is the most important thing a leader can do as they lead their business/organization? and author of, The Art of Being Indispensable at Work.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Having conducted extensive field research, Ranjay Gulati , author of the new book, Deep Purpose , The Heart and Soul of High-Performance Companies , reveals the fatal mistakes leaders unwittingly make when attempting to implement a reason for being. “My Question: How does purpose create trust, autonomy and collaboration?

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Writing job descriptions is essential to building your nonprofit’s organizational structure and ensuring that employees understand their responsibilities. The job description defines the job, expectations of the role, and where within the organizational structure an employee falls. Including specifics about the role.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Having conducted extensive field research, Ranjay Gulati , author of the book, Deep Purpose , The Heart and Soul of High-Performance Companies , reveals the fatal mistakes leaders unwittingly make when attempting to implement a reason for being. “My Question: How does purpose create trust, autonomy and collaboration?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2010

Guest blogger, Patti Anklam , author of Net Work: A Practical Guide to Creating and Sustaining Networks at Work and in the World , explores the role of organizational leadership in a network world. The formal organization is represented by the (usually) hierarchical organization structure. Photo by Eric Eugene Kim.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2022

The truth is that Bitcoin, the leading cryptocurrency by market capitalization, began in 2009 and so too did the genesis crypto culture. Belief in community-run/owned decentralized structures. These structures allow people to collaborate in a trustless environment without the need of traditional bureaucracy or centralized authority.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

This year I used a new tool recommended by colleague Alexandra Samuel, the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions. Well Being is about self, others, and organizational culture. The book was well received and was #1 on Amazon’s Nonprofit Books many times.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The following 10 leadership and business book authors answered this question for me: Question: While we surely will find ourselves challenged by COVID-19 in the foreseeable future, what is the most important thing a leader can do as they lead their business/organization? and author of, The Art of Being Indispensable at Work.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2020

The following 10 leadership and business book authors recently answered this question for me: Question: While we surely will find ourselves challenged by COVID-19 in the foreseeable future, what is the most important thing a leader can do as they lead their business/organization? and author of, The Art of Being Indispensable at Work.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

In her new book, The Fall of the Alphas: The New Beta Way to Connect, Collaborate, Influence – And Lead , she shows why the Beta model is the key to both business and career success. Collaboration: The Alpha paradigm is all about the individual, but “going it alone” simply does not work anymore. I call it Alpha. shared mission.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 22, 2014

In her book, The Fall of the Alphas: The New Beta Way to Connect, Collaborate, Influence – And Lead , she shows why the Beta model is the key to both business and career success. Collaboration: The Alpha paradigm is all about the individual, but “going it alone” simply does not work anymore. I call it Alpha. shared mission.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 9, 2011

Author: Cheryl Black. Neff , co-author of The Future of Nonprofits. I also do large scale collaborative events like Nonprofit Bar Camp and VideoCamp Texas. I would say that I am an author, teacher, speaker, blogger, network weaver, and social media scientist." Set Your Structure! I do that with Lights.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

"While the global population is largely gender balanced, men hold eighty-five percent of senior leadership positions in public companies," states Melissa Greenwell , author of the new book, Money on the Table: How to Increase Profits Through Gender-balanced Leadership. An effective mentoring program demands structure. Measure progress.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

Last year, Rick Bonney and a team of educators and science researchers at the Center for Advancement of Informal Science Education (CAISE) tackled this question in a project designed to define the structures and benefits of public participation in science research (download the full report as a PDF here.) Wiki users are often collaborators.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 21, 2014

In her new book, The Fall of the Alphas: The New Beta Way to Connect, Collaborate, Influence – And Lead , she shows why the Beta model is the key to both business and career success. Collaboration: The Alpha paradigm is all about the individual, but “going it alone” simply does not work anymore. I call it Alpha. shared mission.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

Expanding to meet global need brings a number of new challenges, including collection development for new audiences, gaining author and publisher permissions for worldwide distribution of materials, and forming partnerships with organizations that can spread the word about Bookshare and manage membership and customer support outside of the U.S.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2011

"Frustration in the workplace is a silent killer," claim authors Mark Royal and Tom Agnew in their terrific new book, The Enemy of Engagement , coming out this month from Amacom. That's because, according to the authors' research: Companies that both engage and enable employees demonstrate total reduction in voluntary turnover by 54 percent.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

Brainstorming can be done as a solo activity or group or collaborative brainstorming. Osborn, an advertising executive, invented the latter process of “organized ideation” in the 1930’s and popularized the technique in several books he authored called “ Your Creative Power ” and “ Applied Imagination.”

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

note: This is the first in a fantastic series of guest posts by the authors of Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission. Of course, we also don't want you to forget to register for the ONTC , where you can hear more from all the authors. ]. Let's say you have a friend who talks to you about a race they're running in soon.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 10, 2018

I had lots of creative formats for drawing people out, sharing stories, and working collaboratively. Instead, Parker encourages all event hosts to adopt a stance of "generous authority." Creating event-specific rules can level the playing field, make the implicit explicit, and create a specific culture for the event.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Author: Miriam Kagan. constituent engagement), implementing and optimizing CRM (a constituent relationship management system), is the easy part if you work at an organization whose culture isn't constituent centric. But look at your internal structure and ask yourself: how are my employees incentivized? Is this woman crazy?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Target the right level of authority: This means both the “doer” and the “decision maker.” The secret is in the structure and design of the small group exercises. Participants should be encouraged to bring more than one person. So, you have to design for that. Reflection.

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Everyaction

JULY 18, 2018

Don’t forget - despite the structured, sometimes mechanical feel a fundraising plan can have, storytelling does have a place in the planning process. A great fundraising plan is one that both serves as a blueprint, but also offers this information through the lens of your nonprofit’s culture, mission, and values from beginning to end.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

In this report, the authors describe three specific models for public participation: contribution, collaboration, and co-creation. In the collaborative model, visitors are invited to serve as active partners in the creation of an institutional project which is originated and ultimately controlled by the institution.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2006

The key note was delivered by Steven Johnson, author of "Everything Bad for You is Good." " Doesn't get better than that for an author. Lost is one of the first shows that has been structured as a game. Systems thinking - need to use to think about ecosystems, cultural systems, rich profound form of thought.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

We invited community members in, to be active contributors, collaborators, and co-creators in our museum space. We had incredible success transforming our institution into a vibrant cultural center. We focus on people who are culturally curious, actively creative… but may not see a traditional arts institution as a place for them.

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