Category Archives: leadership

Hometown Advantage with a “D”

People from Detroit call their hometown the “D.” The reason at first appears obvious—Detroit, the letter D—it’s straightforward.  But below the surface, that single letter represents so much more.  Walking around the city center, it’s impossible to miss the Diverse city culture.  Artists and foodies intermingle with suits rushing from one meeting to the next.  [...]
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Seven Reasons to Love DonorsChoose.org: Lessons for School Fundraisers?

Fundraising for Public Education I’ll be frank. I have mixed feelings about (seemingly endless) school fundraisers. As a policy wonk, I understand that needs exceed resources, but am perpetually frustrated when we are not transparent about the value of donations and contributions in public-school budgets, making it impossible to know what it actually costs to [...]
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“We Seek Agility”

Team: Take a look. It’s as if we helped create parts of this. (Perhaps in a complex, highly networked kind of way, we did). Grateful to ResonanceBlog for sharing. Complexity & Humanity 2.0 View more videos from ResonanceBlog.
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Book Review: Open Leadership, Charlene Li – A Practical Guide to the Emerging Open Future

I loved Groundswell (Josh Bernoff, Charlene Li). While little in the way of specific content was new to me at the time I read it, the book offered an organizing framework: an environmental snapshot, an articulation of changing practices, and specific strategies for embracing (and measuring) them – all of which gave me a coherent [...]
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