Today you might have read this 5 star review of my new book from Joanne Fritz at Nonprofit.About.com. Here is a small piece of the
Are you trying to ‘maximize” your “resources” and “optimize” your “funding dollars”?
Are you looking for a nonprofit with a good 5 year plan, and programs based on research?
Are you looking for a predictable (yet innovative) model of human behavior that other nonprofits can follow for “reproducible” or “Replicable” results?
Would you like to keep your donors coming back, year after year?
Would you like to be able to have a large amount of unrestricted funding to keep your programs going?
Wouldn’t it be just fantastic to have this?
Then you might like to try….
“Why would you not only give the fox full rein of the henhouse, but on top of that, let the fox tell the chickens how to live?”
The book that helped me the most in determining which pond I wanted to be in was Strengthsfinder 2.0. It focuses on the idea that each person has a very individual set of strengths. Knowing what those strengths are allows you to align your life so that you are able to do what you do best, every day. Before focusing on a senior management role, evaluate your strengths and see if this is a chance to broaden or deepen in the area of focus you’re already working in or if it is time to move to a new pond.