I recently heard a great episode if six pixels of separation with guest Bob Knorpp. They ended up in a fairly heated debate about the idea of disruption. The tech industry as a whole seems fascinated with the idea of disruption. If the newest sexy startup isn’t ‘disrupting the industry’ […]
Yearly Archives: 2014
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“Brand” is such a loaded term. One definition out there is your brand is what your customers say about your company behind your back. Cute right? Let’s put the brand definition discussion aside for a moment, and let’s talk about what your employees think, and how they influence your brand. Companies of […]
Or why your chain letter needs an exit strategy. Regardless of what you think about the #IceBucketChallenge in support of ALS, and lots of people have thoughts, it’s clear that they, ALS society, are on to something. The challenge has caught on with a number of celebrities big and small. […]
And that’s not the same thing. The sooner the nonprofit sector as a whole realizes and comes to accept this the better. The belief that nonprofits are special, that nonprofits are an exception, that nonprofits need special treatment, that nonprofits need a different set of rules, that nonprofits are victims, […]
So here’s the deal. You may have “The next big idea.” The thing that is going to turn everything we know on its head. It could be so big that people won’t be saying they want to be the Uber of weasels speed dating. They will want to be the ‘your […]
As I have written before, it seems to me that in general, non-profit organizations are trapped in the shadow of the for-profit world. Non-profit organizations are structured in a way that mirrors their for-profit counterparts. A structure that has been honed over the past few hundred years to provide the […]
One of the holy grail’s of non-profit organizations is the ‘Power Board’. That special group of people that can push the organization past it’s own limitations and into an entirely new space. Much has been written and said on the subject, books, blogs, conferences. and consultants. Yet the idea that […]