Keeping your balance
Balance. A great word brings has a smoothness that can inspire an exhalation of breath, a sense of calm. It’s often applied to “work-life balance,” although that’s never really made sense to be because work is part of life.
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It isn’t life balance that has me thinking; it is balance in our work and how we work. Two very unrelated events have me thinking about how balance can play out in very different ways.
I frequently talk to executive directors about the need to Read more
I Dare You
The rule “Don’t ask, don’t tell” is, fortunately, defunct. At least in the military. I think, however, it is alive and well in the culture of too many nonprofit boards: if we don’t ask, we don’t know; if we don’t know, we can think everything is still great; if we think everything is still great, we don’t have to do anything.” And so it goes.
This practice was the subtext running through my mind as I looked at the results of our survey checking in on Read more
