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Benefits of Playing Team
Being an athlete and part of a team has been an integral part
of my entire life. I sometimes walk through the world thinking
that everyone knows what “team” means and how it
manifests in our lives. As many people may not have had the
honor of being part of an orchestra, dramatic performance
troupe, or been a member of a sports team, I am sharing a
few team concepts I believe can be adopted for any group
that works toward a common goal.
Partnership for Fundraising Success
Top fundraising CEOs with whom we have had the honor of
working have the ability to endear themselves to those who
have capacity to make their institution’s dreams come true,
are capable of articulating the vision for the institution to a
variety of audiences, and spend a majority of their time doing
these two things. Read on to see if these essential CEO
characteristics are present at your organization or as a frame
for a potential new hire in the “number two” positionfor your
organization.
Grace and Gratitude
I was walking on Grace Bay in Turks and Caicos, the same
beach where we had put some of Mom’s ashes, and had an
‘aha’ moment. Reading Wayne Dyer’s book on the Tao has
made me more aware of paradoxes. The Tao is a 5,000+
year old philosophy that Dr. Dyer has ‘translated’ for today’s
audience. There is a place in the second verse of the Tao
where the duality of desire and desireless is raised and
likened to wanting and allowing. To realize there is beauty
only because we have defined ugly, tall exists because of the
naming of short, etc is one thing. But to truly practice allowing
the good with the bad or the bad with the good is something
a good leader must do to succeed.
Do Women Make Better Leaders Than Men?
That’s the provocative question Joseph Folkman and
Jack Zenger raised last month in a blog post on
the Harvard Business Review Web site, where they
first published the results of their study based on the
performance evaluations of more than 7,000 leaders.
Also in this Issue
Report Exposes Problems:
Gender Disparity in the
Media
The Women’s Media
Center recently released a new
report that shines a light on the
status of women in media. The
Women’s Media Center 2012
Report on the Status of Women in
US Media underscores the crucial
need to hold media accountable for
an equal voice and equal
participation. Women’s Media
Center co-founders, Jane Fonda,
Robin Morgan, and Gloria Steinem
hailed the report as a wake-up call
for media makers and media
consumers.
Most Generous Donors
Gave More in 2011
As the stock market resurged last
year, so did the charitable giving of
the super wealthy. America’s top 50
donors gave a total of $10.4 billion
in 2011, up from $3.3 billion the
previous year, according to
aChronicle study. One big bequest
boosted the total significantly;
excluding that gift, the
philanthropists on The Chronicle’s
list of the most generous
Americans contributed $4.4 billion.
Girl Scouts CEO on
Developing Women Leaders
Leadership is an important skill in
today’s world. I once heard a supply
chain executive from Elizabeth
Arden tell me he used to always be
encouraged when he would receive
position applications from young
candidates who could clearly
articulate their experience and
goals. He knew he could hire one
and she would go far in her career
because she already demonstrated
leadership potential.
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