Last fall at a conference, I had the chance to sit in on a session facilitated by Kirk Kramer of the Bridgespan Group. During the session, Kirk shared a framework for developing organizational leaders laid out in a recent report written by he and his colleague Preeta Nayak entitled, What’s Your “Plan A” for Growing Future Leaders? If you haven’t had the chance to read the report yet, I highly recommend. It does a solid [ continue reading ]
...This video – Dan Pallotta’s The way we think about charity is dead wrong – has been rocketing around the internet over the past couple of weeks. Numerous people have emailed it to me and a couple have shared it on my facebook wall. All of them have been asking what I think. I finally had a chance to sit down and watch it a few days ago and, honestly, what strikes me most about it [ continue reading ]
...Over the past couple of months I’ve been conducting interviews with new and veteran YNPN National board members that have given me the chance to take the ideas I’ve developed over the years about talent management, the online research I’ve been immersed in most recently, and use it all to build an overarching narrative – the “YNPN Story”, if you will – about how our organization matches its ambitious goals with the leadership needed to [ continue reading ]
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