Trust and change…and how to arrange your bookshelf
Hal’s Blog- Don’t bother to put the two parts of the title together. All they have in common is being the subject of passages I read last week that left me unsettled. The first is from a program report and came in a highlighted box: Change happens at the speed of trust. Trust takes time and discourse to achieve. Meanwhile, don’t push for improvements. I like reversing this...
Where and How to Scale Nonprofit Success
Hal’s Blog -Over breakfast recently with a very smart foundation leader, John Annis, we discussed our shared interest in growing successful programs and organizations.
A Highway Worth Traveling
Hal’s Blog 12/22/2021 Did you happen to read Amor Towles bestselling and wonderful book, A Gentleman in Moscow? Towles has a new book out called the Lincoln Highway. I noted a number of passages I found both gentle and provocative. Here are four of them with what sticks with me from each.
Trust what I do
I just finished reading Trust by Pete Buttigieg. He is amazingly thoughtful and insightful for a politician. One of his points is that trust is best seen in behavior. A short passage: If we think of trust as the belief that someone will do what is hoped or promised, the most basic human way to decide whether to trust that person is to notice what they have done before. Without putting it...
Results are Easy. Right?
My apologies for going dark for several weeks. A house sale and move consumed me. I am now in Bradenton, FL, for the winter. Here’s a thought from my colleague, Robyn Faucy-Washington, CEO of Neuro Challenge Foundation for Parkinson’s. Robyn faced and overcame the challenges of conventional thinking for large convenings. Results are Easy. Right? Recently, Susie Bowie, Executive...