My Favorite Messes

One of the reasons that many for-profit companies like their future leaders to serve on nonprofit boards is so those future leaders can learn new skills or sharpen existing ones.  They figure it is better (for the for-profit) to have that learning and any attendant mistakes happen on the nonprofit’s time and dime rather than on theirs.

This could explain why nonprofit boards don’t always work smoothly:  too many people developing and/or honing personal leadership skills all while trying to do — or figure out — Read more