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When nonprofit strategic planning goes wrong 

Candid

For example, implementation plans lay out the steps, sequence, owner(s), and metrics for each key activity of the plan, while performance dashboards track progress against it using a few vital metrics for the leadership team and board. Preeta Nayak is a partner at The Bridgespan Group, based in San Francisco.

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Survey Reveals Top Community Association Manager Challenges

AvidXchange: Association Management

07:14 JARETT TRAN But one other point to make about this whole management company owners and executives managing properties, when they’re doing that, they’re not providing their employees with the leadership, the guidance that they need. She went to work for a management company in San Francisco where I also used to live.

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Association Subculture: Words Make Worlds - Part 1 - Association.

Association Subculture

Much of the corporate management theory co-opted and applied in the non-profit arena largely ignores the most profound difference between non-profit and for-profit enterprises - the shared leadership structure between volunteers and professional staff. But we need more than a functional analysis to understand associations in depth.

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Lunchtime Links: These Hotels Go Beyond Wired Stays

Associations Now

Ranking the best high-tech hotels in the world, and more, in today’s Lunchtime Links: Hot high-tech hotels: From Tokyo to San Francisco to New York City, hotels are taking note of guests’ tech needs, and Mashable has compiled a list of the most tech-savvy spots. It’s taken some years to catch up to guests’ tech requirements.

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Following Sexual Harassment Scandal, Science Moves Forward

Associations Now

Among them is the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, which last week endorsed a statement that offered its members best practices on how to handle sexual harassment within the scope of AAPA’s leadership structure.

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Women Who Tech Around the World

Beth Kanter

” Using a webinar and conference call platform, we were able to bring in participants from San Francisco, Rwanda, Kenya, Algeria, Tunisia, and Egypt. Along the way, I’ve met some amazing women activists and women who run Women’s Rights, Women Leadership Programs and Technology Start Ups.

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My Conversation With Eric Ries on the benefits of Lean Start Up Principles for Nonprofits

Beth Kanter

Lean Start Up is is taking hold in huge corporations like GE and into the nonprofit sector, in hospitals, schools, and social good entrepreneurs. The latter is exemplified by the work of “ Lean Impact ” which is hosting a conference in San Francisco in 2014. You don’t need sophisticated tools to analyze failure.