At conferences, I’ll often tell very diverse groups of organizations in my seminars, “I don’t care what your mission is, you’re in the energy business.”  For many that’s a momentary charley horse between the ears, and it takes only a few seconds for some stares to become entirely blank with incomprehension. But that’s just […]

With more than 1.5 million nonprofits in the United States, all of them at varying stages of development or decline, it behooves nonprofit leaders and managers to be mindful of organizational lifecycle models and dynamics. Because while some challenges facing nonprofits are “stage-invariant” (i.e., they demand continuous attention regardless of an organization’s lifecycle stage), others are […]