Method’s Hustle
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.” – Antione de Saint-Exupery Newton’s first law of motion dictates that an object stays at rest until acted upon by force. […]
Nonprofit Lifecycle
As another year comes to a close and we explore possibilities for the next, many executives and board members reflect on the state of their organizations. I was recently asked by a client about the best way to diagnose where her organization is to help determine where to focus energies in the new year. […]
How Burt’s Bees Disrupted Clorox
On Halloween 2007, a room full of employees waited for a secret announcement. Two men emerged at the front of the room dressed in bee costumes and revealed news that would alter the course of two companies. The men in the bee costumes were a senior vice president from Clorox and the general manager […]
How DonorsChoose.org Uses Dashboards to Drive Impact
You use dashboards every day, although you may not realize it. The simplest is a clock. When you awake, it tells you what time it is. At a glance, you also know how long you have to get out of the house. If you drive to work, the instrument panel in your car is another […]
Founding Story: charity: water
This week charity: water celebrated its 10-year anniversary. In that time they have raised hundreds of millions of dollars, which has funded 21,118 water projects providing clean water to 6,400,000 people in 25 countries. Did you ever wonder how an organization that has such a big impact got started? This is the surprising story of […]
Hire a Top Performer Every Time with These Interview Questions
Hire a Top Performer Every Time with These Interview Questions Hiring the right people is extremely hard. Not only is the market tightly constrained — especially for tech companies, but the unwritten rules for how to hire are often plain wrong. With more candidates who “look good on paper” going on to flounder at startups, […]
Minimal Viable Team
Every startup I’ve worked at folks have lamented about how there were never enough resources to accomplish everything they wanted to. Whether it was not enough engineers to build the desired features, not enough designers to design those experiences, not enough marketers to drum up interest, or not enough salespeople to generate revenue. It always […]
6 Questions To Ask Before You Start A Social Enterprise
Treating diseases, addressing climate change, expanding access to healthy food or creating new methods of learning. These are just a few of the major social challenges that companies—yes, companies—are working to solve. Of course, the public and nonprofit sectors continue to play a critical role in tackling these challenges, but we’ve also witnessed an increasing […]
