Learn From the Best—and Go to the Core
In a pair of linked pieces for their Forbes column on leadership, Bill Meehan and Kim Jonker focus on the need for social sector professionals to develop carefully honed core principles. “Whatever your role in the nonprofit world—executive, staffer, board member, or philanthropist—identifying your core principles is an essential foundational element of choosing your own focus and role,” they write.
The first piece (“How Two Figures Shaped Our Core Principles on Nonprofit and Philanthropic Leadership”) explores the deep and enduring influence that two leaders—Bill Drayton, founder of Ashoka, and Roy Prosterman, founder of Landesa—had on Meehan and Jonker, respectively.
In the second piece (“Our Core Principles: High Impact at Scale, Yes, but Serve Others Always”), Meehan and Jonker set forth the ideas and ideals that underlie all of their work—starting with the overarching principle of “high impact at scale” but also acknowledging the importance of serving others in everyday ways.
Check out this new resource: a brief overview of the seven elements of strategic leadership. As Meehan and Jonker explain in their latest column, those elements are prerequisites for achieving high impact at scale, and the authors encourage nonprofit leaders to share the overview with their colleagues to stimulate discussion about their nonprofit organization and others in the sector.
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