Board / Staff Partnership: Essential to Impact
The true secret to sustainable impact
It has been said that “culture eats strategy for breakfast (or perhaps for lunch),” and my observation, through our work, is indeed that culture drives the ability to execute—and execution ultimately drives impact.
Culture is typically the domain of the executive leader of an organization. On the other hand, in mission driven organizations clarity as to the vision and goals is equally vital and this is the domain of the board.
For a nonprofit, more appropriately called a social impact enterprise, to be highly effective, there needs to be true partnership between board and staff leadership so that both strategy and execution are working together. Yet all too often, the very structure of social impact enterprises—and the way stakeholders understand their roles—gets in the way of success, rather than contributing to it. Read the full blog post.
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