by Carlo Cuesta | May 26, 2011 | Board Engagement, Collaboration, Creativity and Innovation
Here’s a simple way to find out. In a middle of a board meeting, look at the people around the table and ask yourself: Does the quality of this discussion match the quality of people? Granted, “quality” is fairly subjective. Yet, it is pretty easy to...
by Carlo Cuesta | May 17, 2011 | Board Engagement, Collaboration, Creativity and Innovation
This installment of the Sixty-Second Strategy covers a quick exercise to help organizations define the value they create and deliver to the communities they serve. For more information, go to the related post entitled Owning Your Place in the Community. Also,...
by Carlo Cuesta | Nov 18, 2009 | Board Engagement, Resource Development
[This posting appeared as an article in the Fall 2009 edition of Guild Notes, the quarterly newsletter published by The National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts] “We’re not a fundraising board.” If I had a nickel every time board members have said this to me, I...
by Carlo Cuesta | Jul 20, 2009 | Board Engagement, Collaboration, Resource Development
This post is part three of a three-part series on board/staff collaboration. Go here to read part one and here to read part two. “What we got here is a failure to communicate” said the Board President slightly chuckling at his own joke. “Actually, what we have is a...
by Carlo Cuesta | Jul 2, 2009 | Board Engagement, Collaboration
This post is part two of a three-part series on board/staff collaboration. Go here to read part one. “We’ve already tried that, it didn’t work.” The board member smiled back at the organization’s marketing director and thought: “you may have tried it, but did you do...
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