By Malaika Cheney-Coker You know the exercise, the one that elicits some internal eyerolls – “If your team/division/organization were an animal, what kind of animal would it be?” Most everyone that has taken part to any meaningful degree in organizational life has undertaken this exercise. But beyond injecting some levity, or goofiness in some eyes, into otherwise staid conversations, what if this exercise and the metaphoric thinking it stands for, could have far more powerfu

By Jay Black Here’s a statistic that should take root in our brains: “Up to 56% of nonprofit followers take action, such as donating or volunteering, after seeing a compelling story from a nonprofit they follow on social media.” This is a fruit-bearing idea if we grasp it. So we must learn to tell stories. Stories about our vision, about how we have brought about change, stories that spark people to action. The best, most pithy way to get your stories in front of the people

By Malaika Cheney-Coker Somewhere in those unseen servers where the neurons of AI hum and purr, is the sound of connections not being made. AI, that genie in a bottle both increasingly omnipotent and omnipresent, when queried, fails to identify one of its greatest areas of potential for the social sector—boosting our ability to create and to speed up the translation of our imaginations into real-life. This is surely because we in the social sector have not yet expressed a vis

By Abbie Cohen The private sector has long recognized failure as part of a much larger, innovative process. “Failing fast and hard” is even rewarded at some companies, because businesses recognize the learning opportunities that failures can propagate. Google is a perfect example; through their “20% time policy”, the company encourages its employees to spend 20% of their workweek on projects that are not necessarily related to their main job responsibilities. While this init

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a very good aid to the imagination, just not good enough to imagine for us. By Malaika Cheney-Coker...

By Malaika Cheney-Coker Aside from the lure of work-from-home privileges and higher salaries offered up as reason for the Great...