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The Best of The Executive Director

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Want a One-member Board?

How would you like it if your nonprofit had a one-member board?

If you're an executive director that is struggling with your board then this may be a dream come true. The same may be true if you're a frustrated member of a large, slow-moving and fractious board.

In my customer work I try to communicate powerful concepts in simple and memorable ways. One of my favorite tools to do this is using relevant and powerful quotes.

To that end I've collected scores of quotes during my career. Whittling that collection down to a "top 10" for this article was a tough exercise. Many excellent quotes didn't make the final list.

I ended up choosing this list because these are the quotes that I find most inspiring for myself and our customers. I hope you find them helpful.

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Death by Meeting

I've borrowed the title for this blog entry from one of my favorite business books, Death by Meeting by Pat Lencioni. The basic idea of the book is not that you'll die by meetings. Rather, you might die from awful meetings.

As you know, awful meetings happen all the time. They take too long. They wander aimlessly. They don’t start or end on time. You’d pretty much rather be anywhere else.

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One of the Best Strategic Plans Ever

A couple of years ago I came across an online critique of strategic planning titled “The Perils of Strategic Planning.”

One section, in particular, caught my attention. The author, James Hollan, wrote…

One of the very best plans I’ve ever seen in the nonprofit sector was just two pages. At the top of page one was a brief statement that basically said, “We are doing a very good job and we believe that these three things will make this organization even better. We believe they are three things we can accomplish next year.”

Several years ago I had a part-time job as the executive director of a small nonprofit. It was a great job in many ways. I loved our mission, the people we served, and the challenges we faced. Plus, at the time the job was a perfect complement to my other consulting work.

However, I had one main problem with the job: the board chair (also the founder) and I had dramatically different visions for the organization. He wanted us to be a somewhat regional program that used our nonprofit status primarily to qualify for funds. I, however, wanted us to become a strong nonprofit organization with a larger and larger national reach.

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Who is Mission Met?

Mission Met is a strategic planning company that serves executive directors of small nonprofits and organizations by helping them develop and execute their strategic plans.

Mission Met utilizes a simple process to develop the initial strategic plan and helps build the culture within organizations to refine, implement, and track progress on that plan. Our process is a simple cycle that can be repeated and adjusted over time to best meet your needs.

Mission Met has served many organizations in strategic planning services across the US and the world. Many of those customers say great things and have had clear and visible results from our strategic planning work.

How can Strategic Planning transform your organization?

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