Companies with a deep purpose "that expresses the firm's very reason for being" can find the elusive balance of profit and doing good in the world, says Harvard Business School professor Ranjay Gulati. That said, according to this book review, "deep purpose" is not necessarily defined well for individual companies, and it's not clear every corporation even has such a purpose.

Source: Charter

Barry Barresi at Association Ventures Playbook says it’s time to redesign association board practices by embracing agile governance. He suggests identifying the sources and magnitude of resistance to innovation within your association and shares an eight-step plan for activating strategic optionality thinking on your board.

Source: Association Ventures Playbook

What do your members and customers value? That shouldn’t be a scary question: Associations are used to paying close attention to what services people find useful and which benefits people find attractive. But the pandemic has disrupted clarity about that, along with much else.

Source: Associations Now

Organizations need help figuring out their post-pandemic workplace, and this model offered by Maria Roche and Andy Wu focuses companies on one of four approaches based on company size and growth strategy. For example, they argue that smaller organizations can more easily be fully remote, while larger organizations focused on collaborative creativity might require a full-sized corporate campus.

Source: Harvard Business Review

An undeniable theme will persist in shaping both nonprofit outcomes and operations: how diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) strategies are incorporated holistically and consistently across nonprofit organizations and the importance of intentionally centering racial equity – caring and awareness are simply not enough and won’t move the needle forward on racial equity and wellbeing.

Source: Network for Good

Speeches are more powerful when you omit words such as "just" or "actually," speak in a tone of statements rather than questions, and rely on the power of a well-placed pause, writes Jim Anderson. "Pauses allow your listeners to absorb what you are saying and give you a moment to gather a deep breath and collect your thoughts," Anderson writes.

Source: The Accidental Communicator