I’ve been on the receiving end of someone telling me I would amount to nothing in my life. In fact, I will never forget a teacher in high school telling me that many
So, we’re at the beginning of a New Year. By now, you may have already failed at your resolutions. Wait! There’s hope. It doesn’t matter who you are. Most people want to improve on some aspect
“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke,
My best pal in the world, Fran, had cancer. The doctors gave him less than a 10 percent chance to live. The news was devastating. He would be lucky to live a year.
We’ve all been there. You apply for a job and get rejected. You make a presentation at work thinking everyone will be supportive, and it falls with a thud on deaf ears. Perhaps
This past weekend I had to bury my wonderful sister, Jan. Her death was sudden. Jan was the heart of our family, and after a year of incredible loss, including my father, I’m
We weren’t placed on this earth to be miserable. Look around you. There’s so much misery and sadness. There’s a lot of resignation that life is supposed to be long, difficult and not
Recently, I saw an active discussion on LinkedIn about nonprofit salaries. I’ve written about this in the past myself. You can find those articles here and here. When I wrote about CEO pay
The world is a much better place with Malala Yousafzai in it. As I begin to reflect on my next book about leadership, Malala has been coming to my mind. We all know
Here’s the potential situation in your nonprofit. You have tensions at the board level. As the CEO, you are blaming internal factions. Or, you have high turnover of staff. You blame a lack
