Innovation Workshop on Tap for January 26th

We are excited to gather another group of leaders to share strategies for fighting back in the New Year.

Our first Innovation Workshop was in August.  We received rave reviews so we’re bringing it back by popular demand.  

To make sure it’s productive for everyone we’re limiting attendance to the first 30 people.   

 

We’ll be adding more events to the calendar soon – so stay tuned!

The Nonprofit MBA

“It shouldn’t come as a surprise that nonprofits and private-sector organizations are fundamentally more alike than they are different, yet we still find this hard to understand. It’s pretty simple:

• Businesses and nonprofits have to compete to raise money from external sources. Nonprofits have to attract grant income, but increasingly they raise money by adding earned-income components, selling select goods and services that are related to their missions, or by some combination of both.
• However businesses and nonprofits acquire their resources, they have to spend resources — there are all sorts of allocation decisions that are fundamentally the same.
• Businesses and nonprofits have to organize their production processes similarly to figure out the most rational way to produce a product or provide a service.
• Businesses and nonprofits have to contend with governance issues, they have boards of directors, they may face going out of business and they may face similar challenges when they’ve grown beyond the vision of their founders.
• Increasingly, businesses and nonprofits finance themselves the same ways: selling bonds, entering capital markets and competing for capital funds.”

Source:  Columbia Business School – Ideas@Work

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Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs

Excellent video about powerful presentations from a master.   It’s worth the price of seeing a 15 sec. commercial at the start of the Video.  http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=8655775

All entrepreneurs should use these tips when pitching ideas

5 Techniques to Keep Excitement Levels High

• Introduce an Antagonist
• Create “Twitter-Friendly” Headlines
• Sell a Dreams, Not Products
• Practice Zen-Like Simplicity (eliminate clutter)
• Rehearse-Rehearse-Rehearse

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