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Heart Work for #socialgood

Children are wonderful teachers.

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Sixteen Lessons Learned About Working in Collaboration

From Mary Pickering and Robert Plitt - 2013

• Collaborations SHOULDN’T be launched unless there is something that can be done together that can’t be achieved alone. There needs to be a clear assessment up front that working jointly – which requires time and effort from all participants – is going to improve outcomes.

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On Creativity and Collective Impact

“I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking” 

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Let’s Stop Assuming Non-Profits Should Just Be Run Like a Business

It is not uncommon for business leaders or entrepreneurs to suggest that charities need to behave more like business. Of course non-profit operations should be based on sound financial and management principles and practices, but I suggest blanket statements like “be more like business” ignore some fundamental differences between private and non-profit sector organizations. As well this default position of many business leaders is a tad insulting.

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Are we acting on failure or just failing to act?

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Collective Impact in Action: Thinking Differently and Embracing Paradox

In the September 2014 issue of Engage! I profiled a new article co-authored by John Kania, Fay Hanleybrown and Jennifer Splansky Juster of FSG entitled Essential Mindset Shifts for Collective Impact, which is included in Collective Insights on Collective Impact a new resource published by the Stanford Social Innovation Review. 

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