by Carlo Cuesta | Jun 9, 2025 | Collaboration
The key to a successful board of directors is healthy collaboration between the board chair and the organization’s executive director. It sets the tone for how the board and staff work together by empowering the board to focus on governance while staff concentrate on...
by Carlo Cuesta | Jun 9, 2025 | Collaboration, Uncategorized
This decision matrix tool is designed to help clarify and delineate the roles and responsibilities between a nonprofit board of directors and the executive director or staff. By identifying who is responsible, accountable, consulted, or informed in key organizational...
by Carlo Cuesta | Apr 14, 2025 | Collaboration
Every day is bringing a new piece of information for us to grapple with. How do we listen for the signal amidst the noise? This is where continuous sense-making by leadership teams comes in. This capability lessens ambiguity and moves organizations from reactive to...
by Carlo Cuesta | Apr 2, 2025 | Collaboration, Creativity and Innovation, Feature, Innovation
“If you’re going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill The Buddhist parable of the second arrow teaches a profound lesson about how we as leaders respond to adversity. According to the story, when we experience a painful event—let’s...
by Carlo Cuesta | Feb 16, 2025 | Collaboration
(Go here to read the previous post in this series) Most of us have heard the old adage—sometimes attributed to Oscar Wilde, but definitely uttered by Felix Unger in the in the 1970s television version of Neil Simon’s The Odd Couple—“When you assume, you make an ‘ass’...
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