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How Innovation Naturally Emerges From Deliberate Inefficiency

Eric Jacobsen Blog

“The fact is that most companies are structured to maximize efficiency and minimize risk, resulting in an environment that ultimately prevents meaningful innovations,” explains Elliott Parker , author of the new book, The Illusion of Innovation. Change is hard, but not changing is much harder.

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Mastering Employee Engagement: Best Practices + 13 Ideas

Nonprofits Source

If this sounds like your organization, you’re likely struggling with employee engagement. Fortunately, there are many formal and informal changes you can implement into your organization’s structure to keep your employees motivated. Without an objective in mind or ways to measure progress, employees can feel less driven.

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Are Associations Losing Their Members’ Trust?—The Leadership ColLAB Explores This Critical Question

.orgSource

Trust isn’t a challenge that is currently top of mind for association leaders. But at.orgCommunity we like to explore issues before they become sound bites. We structured this conference based on feedback from.orgCommunity’s fall Solutions Day participants. Nancy emphasized one important idea that we don’t consider often enough.

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Using OpenAI’s ChatGPT for Nonprofit Email Communications (with Examples)

CauseVox

If this sounds familiar, then we’ve got some good news. ChatGPT can create natural-sounding responses to virtually any prompt due to its reliance on deep-learning. and learns not only about the content of that data but also how the words and phrases in it have been structured. The more specific you can be, the better.

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Eight steps to get started with fiscal sponsorship

Candid

Every day, people come up with creative ideas for starting a mission-driven charitable project. Professional fiscal sponsors handle your project’s back-office administration, so you have freedom to focus on your program development and test your ideas. Verify your idea is charitable. Not to worry! Fiscal sponsorship can help.

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3 Top Learning Strategies You Need To Change The World

Bloomerang

For many it’s simply reading and writing, which is the way most of our schools are structured. Finally, schedule a time (while you’re still in the values frame of mind) to conduct a similar group exercise (write on a whiteboard or easel). It sounds scary, but not if you approach it with the playfulness and lightheartedness of a child.

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Why Commodifying Creativity Hurts Us All

Media Cause

So why then, if our best ideas come to us when they’re given time and space to percolate, why are many people still operating in workplace cultures where the speed and quantity of our work is valued over its quality? I know this sounds counterintuitive, especially when those numbers are tied to revenue.