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Flat, Tall, or In Between—Is It Time to Evaluate Your Organizational Structure?

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The organization may still be boxed into a structure that’s been the same for 20 years or more. How do you know that your organizational structure might need retooling? Each of these issues could signal that a more streamlined organizational structure is needed. It’s a structure that preserves accountability.

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The Unrecognized Risk of Status Quo Problem-Solving Skills for Grantmakers

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In a sector that is so risk-averse—afraid of change, reluctant to explore new ideas, and adopt new practices—why do we rely on super risky problem-solving skills? She encourages us, as sector professionals, to rethink our outdated problem-solving habits and stop making assumptions without acknowledgment and testing.

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How to Structure Your Fundraising Event Committee

Greater Giving

We’ll cover in-depth committee structure and breakdowns of committee roles later on. You never know what you might learn, or what big problem a volunteer might be able to solve! The post How to Structure Your Fundraising Event Committee appeared first on Greater Giving Blog. Committees Needed for an Event.

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To Get Close to Members, Follow MarTech Trends

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There is plenty of advice out there, and most leaders have the management skills to retool organizational structures for better communication and greater agility. Of the four bullets listed above, the last two seem to be the most challenging. You can build more collaborative teams. You can’t know, what you don’t know.

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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. He further maintains that we need scaled corporations to recover their problem-solving capacity.

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The Problem of Nonprofit Data and Equity

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They keep it in structures that serve each platform and compel software developers to build integrations and connections (or not) so that their independent companies can sell in multiple markets. The inherent collaboration of nonprofit organizations globally drives the need for structures that facilitate exchanging nonprofit data.

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Build a Board for the Digital Future

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We’ve incorporated the structure that many groups say they want. They know that we’re going to fix the problems.” The speed and agility required for problem-solving in fast-paced markets don’t leave room for wobbly positions or indecision. We’re a board of eight. That smaller size makes us nimble.

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