Are You Climbing the Ladder for the Wrong Reasons? The Role of Power, Position, and Money (Part 2)
In Part 1 of this series, we covered the topic of using your personal power properly. Today, in Part 2, I want to suggest how you should think about advancing your position in fundraising. I have seen it happen so many times. A very successful person, bored with the...
The Role of Power, Position, and Money in Frontline Fundraising (Part 1)
I’ve had a very interesting personal journey with power, position, and money. I was in 7th grade when I got caught stealing money from the student council store. It was a humiliating and embarrassing situation. I got fired from a job in my early twenties for trying to...
You Have the Power!
It’s hard to know what stage of the pandemic we’re in. It looked like we were close to a post-pandemic world, but with this Delta variant, COVID-19 continues to linger. Maybe we’re in a kinda-post-pandemic time? Who knows when things will really return to a new...
How to Use Your Power Correctly
He was used to power and powerful people. He called me from New York to talk about the position we had open, and the conversation took a twist that he didn’t expect. This was back in the days when I was the co-owner and manager of one the largest direct marketing...The Three Legs of the Non-Profit Stool
I could tell he was very frustrated. And he felt misunderstood. To put it plainly, he could not get management to understand that without program information he would not be successful. The person I was talking to was a very talented MGO who had a long track record of...TOP RATED PODCAST
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