Still Hands

Walking your hollow way We have all heard of multi-tasking. By now you have also heard that multi-tasking is an illusion. A trick we play on ourselves to make us believe that we can do more than one thing at the same time. In actuality, multi-tasking is distracting, impairs executive functioning, ...

Slow down and take it in Multi-resting, the name I gave last month’s blog was noticed by over 50% of subscribers to A Cause Greater. Multi-resting also had an extremely high click-through rate as identified by any measure on social media. But what impressed me more than any thing else was that ...

We've all heard of multi-tasking We’ve all heard of multitasking. The art of doing more than one thing at a time. Something we thought we needed to be good at…even great at. Hey, I love multitasking, don’t you? I can eat lunch, at my desk, while answering an e-mail and talking on the phone. All at ...

Moving Toward Human Flourishing and the Future Value of Your Mission If you have been following our series on Exemplar Governance, welcome back. If this is your first time joining in, it’s great to have you along! Over the past five months, we’ve been naming the key elements of Exemplar Governance ...

How do you Monitor Fulfilling Your Organization's Mission? If you been following our series on Exemplar Governance, welcome back. If this is your first time joining in, it’s great to have you along. Last month we asked the question about what a ‘governance dance’ looked like, and more specifically, ...

For as long as I can remember, I’ve been a huge fan of public television. Like many, my experience with PBS started with Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood. In the late '70s, it was Dr. Who staring Tom Baker. In the '80s, while in college and living in Washington DC, it expanded to The ...

Dancing on Mission Last month we wrote about the WHO of board governance. In this third of our five-part series, we take up the question of WHAT boards are responsible for in their work – or to extend our metaphor, what does successful dancing as a board look like? Reflect for a moment on the ...

Excellent organizational governance matters Organizational governance has been written about a lot. It can be difficult to understand, challenging to describe, let alone accomplish with some level of personal satisfaction and benefit to the organization. Your organization’s governance of itself ...