Archive of category "Organizational Effectiveness"

Outsourcing, unemployment, poverty, and taxes…is there a better way?
What if we offered incentives to companies who follow practices that improve life for our citizens and economy, while at the same time providing needed financial injections into countries with less prosperity?
It seems to me that the big challenges facing us are situations such as when a [...]

What if we eliminate tax cuts? Are tax cuts the best mechanism to use? If companies and individuals paid taxes to support our common needs as communities (such as sewer and water systems, healthcare, etc), would we still have Americans missing out on “the American dream”? What if we tried a different mechanism such as [...]

My friend, and Greensboro, NC based nonprofit tech guru Trish Perkins, recently asked me about connecting a WordPress based website with Salesforce.com’s database system (which is FREE for 501(c)(3) nonprofits by the way). I thought sharing my answer with everyone might be useful. These solutions will work for any website, but I’ve given specific instruction [...]

In any moment, we are who we choose to be, and for only that moment
Once you label me you negate me – Søren Aabye Kierkegaard
Absolute thinking has done as much as anything to destroy our character and integrity in modern times. I’m referring to the black and white, divisive lens we sometimes view our world [...]

I just finished reading the phenomenal book “What would Google do?” by Jeff Jarvis. Having been completely influenced and inspired by this work, the first thing I did was look for other readers who have applied the knowledge. I found a visionary application of the ideas to education by Danny Silva in his posting “What [...]