I was reading an article from the Harvard Business Review the other day, and could not help but make a connection between the way highly successful for-profit corporations and highly successful nonprofit organizations deal with change.Successful organizations usually embrace change. Less successful for-profits and nonprofits tend to fear change. They rarely - if ever - ask themselves,“Why are we doing it this way?” After all, if folks question the status quo, there just might be, oh[…]

The following post on nonprofit strategic planning was written by Standards for Excellence Licensed Consultant Jane Stein and is part of our “Ten Years of Advancing Excellence” blog series, celebrating ten years of the Standards for Excellence Licensed Consultant program. With vast experience in the nonprofit sector, Jane Stein has been providing consultation and training services to nonprofit organizations for more than twenty years. Jane became a Standards for Excellence Licensed Consultant in[…]