Thursday, December 6, 2007

A Marriage Made in Optimization Heaven?

Nonprofits live in a perpetual state of lack and are often psychologically constrained by a paradigm of 'not as good as". For-profits live in a perpetual state of sub-optimization due to a preoccupation with tangible over intangible. Wouldn't it be great if there was a meaningful way to draw the best of both worlds to eachother? What if the for-profit community could teach the nonprofit world to operate more like a business, to understand systems, to measure and improve process performance, for example? And what if the nonprofit community could teach the for-profit world to treat people like volunteers, to liberate the hero inside of everyone?

Why wouldn't an initiative like this-blending Servant Leadership with Liberated Heroes- lead to a transformation in both communities?

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