As I look around my neighborhood coffee shop I see eight people, seven of them are using an electronic device. The room is mostly silent with the faint sound of “Muzak”, that soft-recorded music overhead. I breathe in and take a scan of the energy in the room – it’s almost numb, even with this […]

It’s Monday morning. You walk into the office. The phone is already ringing, the email inbox is filling, and you walk by your mail slot and see mail billowing out of the box.  A coworker sees you in the hall and stops to ask you, ‘just a quick question.’ You return to your desk and […]

Do you ever feel like you are on the hamster wheel of nonprofit life?  Get up, make your coffee, drive to the office, answer email, attend a few meetings, drive home, and do it all over again like Groundhog Day.  Do I have it about right? When I ask nonprofit CEOs and executive leaders the […]