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The Strategic Art of Ambiguity
When the deck is stacked against change, ambiguous actions can change the game.
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Co-Leadership for Bottom-Up Transformation
Shared leadership models can be transformative, but require building an organization-wide culture of collectivity, sharing, and generosity.
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Leading Outside Your Comfort Zone: The Surprising Psychology of Resilience, Growth, and Well-Being
D. Christopher Kayes offers a compassionate, albeit slim, guide to resilience-building for leaders.
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The Gyms on the Corners
Recognition, distortion, and the organizing infrastructure behind Minnesota's response to Operation Metro Surge.
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When Minnesota’s Civic Gyms Stayed Open
This article series, produced in partnership with and sponsored by the McKnight Foundation, brings together foundation leaders, community partners, and a mutual aid organizer to reflect on what happened during Operation Metro Surge in Minneapolis.
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Earning Back the Trust: A Pluralistic Path Forward for Public Education
The next era of public education will be judged less by the elegance of its ideas than by whether it responds, with humility and pragmatism, to the people it exists to serve.
CEO Activism and Authenticity
CEOs who take political stances command more credibility with the public when their companies embrace corporate social responsibility.
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The Bias of ‘Professionalism’ Standards
Professionalism has become coded language for white favoritism in workplace practices that more often than not leave behind people of color. This is the fourth of 10 articles in a special series about diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition
Social entrepreneurship is attracting growing amounts of talent, money, and attention, but along with its increasing popularity has come less certainty about what exactly a social entrepreneur is and does.
Creating High-Impact Nonprofits
Conventional wisdom says that scaling social innovation starts with strengthening internal management capabilities. This study of 12 high-impact nonprofits, however, shows that real social change happens when organizations go outside their own walls and find creative ways to enlist the help of others.
What Business Execs Don’t Know—but Should—About Nonprofits
Business leaders play vital roles in the nonprofit sector – as board members, donors, partners, and even executives. Yet all too often they underestimate the unique challenges of managing nonprofit organizations.
The Dawn of System Leadership
The deep changes necessary to accelerate progress against society's most intractable problems require someone who catalyzes collective leadership.