Gina Bernacchi is a Denver-based freelance writer who specializes in writing about and for the nonprofit sector. She has written articles and reports for several different nonprofit organizations and was a frequent contributor to The NonProfit Times. Contact her at gina@causeplanet.org
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Something Michael Fullan said in his latest book, The Six Secrets of Change (our Page to Practice™ for the month of September), has stayed with me long after I finished reading it: “One of the best ways you love your employees is by creating the conditions for them to succeed.” Anyone who has felt frustrated... Read more
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Our Page to Practice™ this month is Influencer: The Power to Change Anything (McGraw-Hill, 2008) by the same authors who wrote Crucial Confrontations and Crucial Conversations (Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, David Maxfield, Ron McMillan and Al Switzler) adobe acrobat reader kostenlos downloaden. Coincidentally, my husband, who is a high school social studies teacher, was... Read more
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I recently finished reading Working Across Generations: Defining the Future of Nonprofit Leadership for our January Page to Practice™, and one of the points in the book has stuck with me: The leadership “crisis” that the sector has been anticipating since CompassPoint’s Daring to Lead study came out in 2001 hasn’t really occurred geburtstagskarten... Read more
