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The biggest reason leadership is challenging

Concord Leadership

There are many reasons leadership is challenging: staff, clients, budgets, demands on our time. But the biggest reason leadership is challenging? Before getting into a leadership position, you want to call the shots. You know you could do better than the person currently in leadership.

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The New Problem-Solving Skills That All Cities Need

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By James Anderson Here’s a new axiom fit for the 21st century: The greater the global challenge, the more likely it is to fall to local governments to fix. There’s good reason for that, as these skills are foundational to the work of a well-run city. Consider the climate crisis. Or take the ongoing global migration wave.

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Nonprofit Leadership: Using Data for Better Decision-Making

The Charity CFO

Let’s look at what types of data nonprofits can use for decision-making and the challenges that go with data usage. Leveraging Data in Nonprofit Leadership How can you use data effectively as a nonprofit leader? Are you relying on intuition or guesswork? A better way to make decisions is using data.

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Why Nonprofit Leadership Is Surprisingly Lonely (And What to Do About It)

Nonprofit Fixer

But we do have tools at our disposal to make leadership less lonely and more joyful and open. Why Is Leadership So Lonely? Leadership takes many forms and often requires sacrifices. In my experience as an executive director, several factors have made leadership feel especially isolating. Read on to learn more!

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Make The Uncommon Common: Co-Founders Unite In Mentoring Black Girls and Women in STEM

Fundraising Leadership

Brittany Wheeler (left) and Jasmine LeFlore (right), co-founders of Greater Than Tech at a recent Demo Day. Jasmine LeFlore and Dr. Brittany Wheeler grew up in different regions of the country with different circumstances, but a similar outsized curiosity and love of learning in math and science. And yes, she did. How she got that job is telling.

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Beyond Donations: 3 Ways to Get Support from Chapter Parents

Top Nonprofits

Your chapter needs professional-level expertise to tackle certain challenges. One of the biggest reasons that students join your chapter is to access the personal development opportunities offered. One of the biggest reasons that students join your chapter is to access the personal development opportunities offered.

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The Pitfalls of Personal Judgment

Stanford Social Innovation Review

For this reason, it is imperative that practitioners critically examine who they go above and beyond for, and why. In this sense, the phrase “case by case basis” can indicate situations where a case manager’s individual discretion can show bias by that exact sense of familiarity and comfort.