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That title kind of feels like a riddle, doesn’t it? It poses a question in such a way that it implies an affirmative answer. If you care about marketing enough or find the title even somewhat intriguing, you might pause and actually consider reading this article to get that answer. So that title in itself … Continue reading What Does Dissonance Have to Do with Marketing?
1. 6 P’s of Essential Innovation: Create the culture and capabilities of a resilient innovation organization By Michael McCathren (Ripples Media llc, June 29, 2022) Book Overview 2. Opportunity Leadership: Stop planning and start getting results By Dr. Roger Parrott (Moody Publishers, Feb. 1, 2022) Book Overview Hear Dr. Roger Parrott discuss “Opportunity Leadership” on the Best … Continue reading Books for Fall 2022
Perhaps empathy sounds like it should stay safely tucked away in the realm of friendships and counseling rooms. What does it have to do with innovation, anyway? Isn’t innovation about big, industrial, life-changing leaps forward like electric lights, antibiotics, and automobiles? What does it have to do with innovation, anyway? Innovation, by another name, might … Continue reading Empathy-Driven Innovation
“That’s what happens when you study men: you find mare’s nests. I happen to believe that you can’t study men, you can only get to know them, which is quite a different thing.” — C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength In this exciting era of constant technological advancement, it’s common to understand innovation to be a … Continue reading Innovation Is More Than Technology
“The biggest barrier to the gospel is trauma.” This is the problem local leaders working with orphans and vulnerable children in the majority world shared with the founder of RiverCross. Trauma hinders children from coming to Christ. Local leaders shared that they know how to tell the children about Jesus. What they didn’t know was … Continue reading Innovation Begins with a Problem
For many nonprofits, 2020 and 2021 were exceptional years in fundraising. However, current economic conditions represent an existential threat for nonprofit organizations. That’s not hyperbole. There are no guarantees in what the short-term future looks like. If a global economic slowdown begins for several years, nonprofit organizations will face funding challenges like never before. Short-term … Continue reading Innovating to New Donors
Our world is changing at an incredibly rapid pace: can your fundraising keep up? Changing economies, demographics, and interests all have significant influences on fundraising. So how do we innovate our practices to keep up with the pace of change while maintaining our biblically-centered convictions about generosity and fundraising? To future-proof your fundraising efforts, embrace … Continue reading Future-Proof Your Fundraising
For Christians, the motivation to innovate is infinitely more significant than purely organizational survival – because ultimately, we carry the message of the gospel and have been called to let our light shine before others in all we do. Innovation leads to relevance, and relevance keeps our message in front of those around us. And … Continue reading Unleashing Innovation
We needed a win in a bad way. In my first year as CEO of a small nonprofit, we faced financial, staffing and program challenges. Global Mapping International (GMI) provided research products and services for global missions (the organization is now closed), and thankfully the former CEO had proactively commissioned a study on how nonprofit … Continue reading Mindsets for Innovation
“What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.” (Ecclesiastes 1:9) I used to think that I understood innovation. Then I spent a decade and a half leading innovation in one form or another. Starting new initiatives. After thousands of hours of combined … Continue reading Innovation’s Roots
