Executive coaching is an increasingly popular method that organizations use to build the professional capabilities and leadership skills of their employees. In the past, there was some skepticisim about coaching, because people assumed that it was remedial in nature. Why should someone get a coach unless he or she had some kind of deficiency? However, since several […]

Never assume anything. It’s an old warning—and one that proved true again when we studied leaders of nonprofit organizations in partnership with Community Resource Exchange during 2007. CRE, a 27-year-old New York City consulting organization, provides high-value capacity building services to nonprofit leaders and organizations. “Leadership in for-profit endeavors is widely studied,” says our associate Jean Lobell, […]