Category: Leadership

  • Signs Complexity May Be Outgrowing the Operating Model

    Signs Complexity May Be Outgrowing the Operating Model

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    Organizations rarely become misaligned overnight. More often, complexity accumulates faster than the organization evolves to support it. New revenue streams are added. Teams expand. Stakeholders and partners increase. Systems layer on top of each other without integration. Decision-making grows more complicated. For a while, strong people compensate for the strain. The organization continues functioning, while…

  • The Theory of Change Isn’t a Framework. It’s a Change Management System.

    The Theory of Change Isn’t a Framework. It’s a Change Management System.

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    In the nonprofit sector, the Theory of Change is often treated as a requirement. It is something developed for a grant, included in a report or summarized on a website. When it is used this way, it tends to function as documentation rather than direction. That approach misses what the Theory of Change is. At…