Do the members of your organization’s board of directors feel engaged?  Motivated? Energized? Connected to your mission? Do they participate? Attend your board meetings? Contribute? Ask questions? Do they hold themselves accountable for board actions? Do they understand their purpose? As you honestly assess and answer these questions (and others), the last question in the […]

If you have listened to the news lately, you have heard a lot of predictions. We hear predictions from rulings of the Supreme Court, on the future of Twitter, on gas prices, on inflation, on unemployment, on the economy, the stock market, interest rates, and the housing market, and daily we listen to predictions with […]

The game of golf has been referred to as “the gentlemen’s game.”  Although, I will reluctantly confess that I myself, as an amateur golfer, have occasionally used “less-than- gentlemanly” behavior after a particularly poor afternoon on the links.  A quote that is often erroneously attributed to Mark Twain is, “golf is a good walk spoiled.” […]