How To Be A Great Nonprofit Board Member, Especially Now

Alice Korngold — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:31:31 -0500

Answer: Bear Witness. Tell the Story. Take Action.

This has been my advice to board members whom I have trained and placed on nonprofit boards for many years, but it takes on greater importance in today's environment for two reasons: first, the tough economy which makes fundraising more challenging for nonprofits, and second, the increasing demand from funders for nonprofits to measure their impact in serving the community.

Why Values Trump Rules and Regulation

Dov Seidman — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:59:36 -0500

Everywhere I travel, I hear the same refrains: "We need more regulation," or on the flip side, "If we hadn't deregulated, we wouldn't be in this financial mess."

It looks like the White House is of this mind-set. Citing Wall Street for helping to create a "culture of irresponsibility," President Obama wants to impose more rules on the financial industry by, among other things, creating a Consumer Financial Protection Agency.

Vistaprint: Completely Changing the Printing Industry

Kaihan Krippendorff — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:39:58 -0500

Robert Keane had one year to plot out his business.

Finding the Customer You Didn't Know You Had

Douglas Crets — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:31:37 -0500

I've been working in my current role for about one and a half years, casting a net into a huge ocean of financial executives and looking for huge fish to secure, bring home, and enlist as corporate speakers in the live events that we do.

The basic method is: find the big fish, get them on the program, and then create marketing literature and web page content that attracts that big fish's cohorts.

Escaping Your Inner Mental Prison

Dr. Alex Pattakos — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:45:20 -0500

"Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now," the world-renown psychiatrist and author of the classic bestseller, Man's Search for Meaning, Dr. Viktor Frankl, advises us.

Getting in Hot Water with Bob Hallam and D1 Spas

Glenn Croston — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:41:30 -0500

Bob Hallam is in hot water, and he likes it that way. Hallam founded Dimension One Spas 32 years ago and has grown it into a $60 million business that designs and produces luxury hot tubs sold throughout the United States and in 35 countries worldwide.read more

Why Does Oklahoma Want To Drown New York?

Terry Tamminen — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:35:00 -0500

As the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee began hearings on carbon regulation, debate ran along traditional battle lines, but with a new script. Democrats Barbara Boxer (CA) and John Kerry (MA) moved away from discussing the environmental impacts of climate change - - and the reason, therefore, to take action to reduce carbon emissions - - and focused instead on the economic benefits of a domestic clean energy economy. Meanwhile, Republicans James Inhofe (OK) and Lamar Alexander (TN) complained that energy bills would rise and Americans would lose jobs.

Rage Feeds Rage: So Take A Bite Of Some Happy Pie

Kaihan Krippendorff — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:35:23 -0500

A while back I wrote about how angry America seems to be and how as business people, we need to make sure our products don’t wind up on the forefront of consumer rage. The piece got me thinking about another question – why are we so angry?

An Interview with a Corporate Green Hero

Lewis Perkins — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:19:36 -0500

In my last blog entry, I wrote about the 2009 Newsweek Green Corporate Rankings. Soon after this issue was published, I had the good fortune of spending some time with HP's Director of Environmental Sustainability, Bonnie Nixon, on a recent trip to Northern California. After seeing HP on the "Newsweek" list at number one, I was very interested to learn about the woman behind its corporate shift. What was confirmed to me is that behind every major corporate transformation story is a truly heroic man or woman.

Moody's Mega Math Challenge: Wall Street's Strategic Philanthropy

Alice Korngold — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:38:07 -0500