History isn't over. Despite loud proclamations twenty years ago that the end of the Cold War marked "the end of history" and the beginning of a time when everything would essentially be stable and the same forevermore, that hasn't happened, and it won't. The one thing we can be certain of about the future is that it will be different from today ( Read more... )

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I thought now might be a good time to share some observations about the life cycles of nonprofits from the perspective of someone who spent fifteen years working in nonprofits large and small, including three years' work for a "troubleshooter", a consultant hired to help small nonprofits with their crises ( Read more... )

The famed military theorist and author Carl von Clausewitz famously stated that "war is the continuation of politics by other means." However, the inverse is also true -- politics is war with fewer explosions but no less damage. Politics is, quite simply, how decisions are made about who lives and who dies, who eats and who starves, who prospers ( Read more... )