A common mindset held by nonprofits lies within the belief they can save money by doing everything themselves. Just because you can do something, doesn’t mean you should.

What if you could increase your capacity for prevention by identifying problems before they happened? It is possible with a process called upstream thinking.

While a global pandemic may not have been the perspective any of us were seeking, living through it shined some welcome light on the issue of burnout, mental health, work-life balance and is helping to reframe thinking on how and where the job gets done.

I lived what I would call an "ignorance is bliss" life. Like most of us, I drove through communities seeing only what is on the surface--shopping malls, churches, schools, city halls and parks. No longer. I have lost my "bliss factor".

You don’t have to look hard to see what leadership looks like. Just watch the Minnesota Wild Hockey team since Bill Guerin took over as general manager and he named Dean Evason head coach.

Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, Ambiguity. In a nutshell, the VUCA age requires new approaches to age-old processes, growth and open mindsets, broader perspectives and thinking on your feet.