Where are the Level 5 Leaders?
Having just finished teaching a class on governance where we talk about the should haves and the ought tos, as well as the realities, the one that has grabbed my attention this round is the paucity of quality leaders—at both the paid and volunteer levels. In so many ways, leaders are, for the most part, at best average, and at worst well below.
Perhaps the most basic of the deficiencies is the failure to understand their jobs. It doesn’t take long working in a nonprofit to Read more
Accepting Board Underperformance
One of my favorite classes in the eight-week online sessions of the La Salle Master’s in Nonprofit Leadership is in nonprofit governance. After each class, I relish reading and responding to each of the more than 200 student posts per discussion board.
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At the start of the session, I tell students, all of whom work for various nonprofits, that they are going to find this a very difficult class. Yes, there is a lot of work, but that’s not why Read more
