In my post, An Unlikely Hero, I said that performance trumped personality when considering people for promotion (and hiring). However, when I interview people for jobs, I have a criteria that ranks even higher than proven performance, and that is how well the person fits with the team’s values. Values are important because the CCCC team developed them [...]
The Ultimate Question
Would you like to know what your supporters really think of your charity? Tired of paying big bucks for marketing surveys? Here’s a book that I think offers a great solution. We tried its recommendations at CCCC in January 2008 and got excellent results. The book is The Ultimate Question by Fred Reichheld. The premise is that [...]
“Fully funded, now what’s our mission?”
Today our cases in the strategic nonprofit leadership course at Harvard Business School included Prison Fellowship (featuring Frank Lofaro, now president of Christian Leadership Alliance) and an interesting group of British financiers who created their own charity called Absolute Return for Kids (ARK). ARK holds a gala event each year to raise money for charity. In [...]
What to do with hard-to-measure mission statements
Well, I’ve just finished the first full day at Harvard’s nonprofit leadership course and so far each class session has boiled down to one or two key ideas. This is very helpful because it makes it easier for us to take what we have learned back to our ministries. One of the cases we looked at [...]
Rev. John Pellowe, MBA, DMin
