Nonprofit organizations are tax-exempt under Internal Revenue Code because they provide “public benefit”. Nonprofits serve communities and individuals in distress, serve industry trade organizations, supply growth and learning opportunities for industry and business membership associations, and serve many other public interests. There are over 600 subgroup classifications of nonprofits. While there are obvious advantages to a nonprofit, an elusive weakness …
The Rugged Beauty of Culture Change
Changing culture is as much art as science. Organizations have many cultures – all supporting, reacting and consuming each other while taking energy from leadership, employees, vendors, and contractors. Culture is evasive, fluid, and viral. An ocean coastline changes as the rain falls from above, tectonic plates move below, and waves and timeless tides chafe the sands and rocks along …
Sailing Through Troubled Waters of Organizational Change
If you dive deeply into the analogy of an organization as a sailing vessel, then the values of the organization are the sails powering the vessel. The journey of organizational change is a shift in the cultural course from known waters to unknown waters. The stakeholders, including the management and staff of the organization, are the crew members, many of …