Are you tired of business as usual? Clare Segal and Bernard Ross help you explore where your business is related to your mission and then guide you to an action plan for better results.
If you know what you want to accomplish but your staff isn’t with you, Chapter 9 & 10 help you change mindsets and focus your energy. The authors offer you questions to ask yourself that will bring you clarity and better chances for a favorable outcome.
If your performance improves for a while, then tapers off, Chapter 2 & 3 will help you stretch your goals and rise to the next level.
If you have a lot of ideas, but trouble following through with them, Chapters 7 & 8 help you sort through your ideas with mind-mapping exercises to sort through them and develop a plan.
Chapter 4 & 5 are the chapters to read when you know you need a change, but just can’t seem to find the springboard idea to launch it.
Page 70 is my favorite page in “Breakthrough Thinking for Nonprofit Organizations.” Clare and Bernard suggest employing a jester based on an ancient and well-established medieval tradition of the fool or jester. This role is to help people challenge their own assumptions. The jester has the right to challenge the king or members of the court. From my training with Improvisation and Theater, I’ve come to appreciate the wisdom of the fool more and more. I applaud them for encouraging nonprofit organizations to try it. They offer guidelines to help make your experiment a success.
If you feel any area of your organization is stuck, this book will help you think in new ways, solve problems quicker and be a helping hand in making your vision a reality.