George's Page

(...you can’t say that!!)
Perhaps, but you better at least ‘break even’ and do so efficiently. The contributors expect that and even your volunteers won’t long support an ineffective effort.

Each non-profit community is under extreme scrutiny to clarify, execute, evaluate, and defend:
- its purpose and practices (improved productivity toward mission)
- its benevolent impact to the population it serves (perceived value)
- its measured success in meeting its charter (ROI or appropriate metric)

To do so requires a continuous change-management approach that:
- Minimizes the interruption to current operations
- Involves and empowers all classes of participants
- Creates incremental in-stride improvements at all levels
- Provides appropriate ‘transparency’ and ‘accountability’
- Enhances esprit de corps, improves morale and productivity
- Is a way of thinking and acting rather than a one-time “initiative”

That’s a big challenge for a single organization. It may be more easily solved by cooperation, and the social web has now made that entirely possible.

It will take more than the casual structure of ‘threaded’ discussions on social blog sites - that can eventually go nowhere. It will take ‘Collaboration on Purpose’!

So that we don't repeat past errors -
- we will have to get past prior answers,
- by questioning prior information, and
- doing so with the right questions!
Ready to ASK4™ it...