The hiring of former Silicon Valley Community Foundation leader Emmett Carson—who has been found responsible for SVCF’s toxic work environment—at the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art leads to many wonderings about what is an appropriate redemption process.
Last week, NPQ hosted a conversation with our Senior Editor Cyndi Suarez about how we, as social change agents, can better use our power at various levels of interaction—in movements, in organizations, and in our personal lives.
Affect produces an effect or a change in another, whether in body, feelings, or mind. Resistance begins with the ability to recognize, engage, and redirect affect. This ability is a core source of power and can be learned.
There are patterns to the way domination works. Armed with this knowledge, we can interrupt these patterns of domination and apply power in ways that lead us toward liberation.
We tend to think of power as a tool of domination, but it is also a tool for liberation. Knowing how they differ is critical to our social change work.
The decertification of USA Gymnastics by the US Olympic Committee has been considered a “nuclear option” to be used only as a last resort, but in this case, even that may not be sufficient to change a poisonous nonprofit culture.
This NPQ classic discusses in a practical but unusual way a question every board of directors should be able to ask and answer.
In this column, Mark Light explores the notion of servant leadership. While the phrase “servant leadership” only came into being in the 1970s, the practice dates back millennia. As for being a servant leader yourself, one could do worse than to follow the example set by George Bailey in Frank Capra’s “It’s a Wonderful Life.”
This is the largest shakedown yet, with the leadership of over two dozen hospitals being put on notice.
This classic reflection from Bill Traynor remains one of the best pieces on leadership in an inclusive or networked system that we’ve ever seen.
