“What you do has far greater impact than what you say.”
– Stephen Covey
“There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.”
– Indira Gandhi
Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
Lao Tzu
Farmers who wait for perfect weather never plant. If they watch every cloud, they never harvest.
Ecclesiastes 11:4 (New Living Translation)
“It always seems impossible until it’s done”.
Nelson Mandela
“Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat”.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
“No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.”
Andrew Carnegie
Lead: Delegate, Motivate, and Appreciate
LINK: My Non-profit Journey: Successes I’ve Achieved (Sofia Crisp)
“For myself, I can say that I am ‘coachable’. I am not afraid to say I don’t know something. I’m willing to find the person, or people, who do have the knowledge or expertise required. You might call this an ‘I don’t know now’ mindset. To put it simply, as a situation presents itself I learn from others I’ve sought out”.
As Executive Director and Founder of Housing Consultants Group, Crisp demonstrates this Carnegie quote. Read More Leadership Keys: Lone Rangers Stumble
“Victory teaches you nothing. Identifying what went wrong, and then adapting accordingly to it, is the only way to success.”
Jordi Alemany
Your Outcomes Well
Better outcomes through Best Practices (Non-profit leaders)
“Dream more than others think practical.
Expect more than others think possible.
Care more than others think wise.”
Howard Schultz
Your Outcomes Well
Better outcomes through Best Practices (Non-profit leaders)
You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.
Nancy D. Solomon
Your Outcomes Well
Better outcomes through Best Practices (Non-profit leaders)
Sofia S Crisp took time, in the last post, to share a recent Board Development success she and her Team achieved. This achievement, however, would never have occurred if two earlier successes hadn’t happened. The housing organization survived its first 5 years. As well, Crisp’s visionary approach to training and educating her staff, and herself, stands as a noteworthy success. These 2 successes laid the groundwork for the evolution of her non-profit’s Board.
In this Series, My Non-profit Journey: What I Wish I Knew When I Started, eight leadership wishes shared by Sofia Crisp with Your Outcomes Well will be explored.
- Crisp is the Executive Director/Founder of Housing Consultants Group (HCG), Greensboro NC.
- Her 3rd wish: Successes I’ve Achieved. This blog post will focus on:
- Team education and training
- Surviving the early years
In growing a non-profit, a leader will encounter ‘the good, the bad, and the ugly’. As long as they learn from challenges along the way, they’ll be well-positioned for better outcomes in the future. In an effort to make the journey of others better, Sofia S Crisp took time, in the last 2 posts, to openly share some of her own non-profit journey challenges. Her other purpose, in telling her story here, was making it clear that her organization “prevailed over every challenge it faced”. It emerged as ‘a stronger organization’ she strongly feels. She firmly believes that others can also overcome their challenges. Ironically, the seeds of a non-profit leader’s future successes often lie in the challenges they’ve overcome.
In this Series, My Non-profit Journey: What I Wish I Knew When I Started, eight leadership wishes shared by Sofia Crisp with Your Outcomes Well will be explored. In the last two posts we explored her second wish (Challenges I’ve Faced)
- Crisp is the Executive Director/Founder of Housing Consultants Group (Greensboro NC).
- Her 3rd wish: Successes I’ve Achieved. Building a Better Board, to allow her organization to achieve better outcomes, is the topic of this blog post.
