For Impact

Daily Nuggets:
A For Impact Blog

Team • Sep 29, 2017

Today’s nugget is an excerpt from Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World (p. 127-128) by...

Funding • Sep 27, 2017

We spend a lot of time studying, practicing, and teaching the art and science of human engagement. It’s essential to...

Funding • Sep 26, 2017

Every few years there is a new fad in fundraising. For the past 2+ years (at least), it’s been crowdfunding...

Team • Sep 25, 2017

I’m going to preface this joke by emphasizing THIS IS A JOKE. Joke: We, at The Suddes Group, have taken...

Personal • Sep 21, 2017

Ray Dalio built Bridgewater into one of the most successful hedge funds in the world. He correctly predicted the 2008...

Team • Sep 20, 2017

Amazon sells over 21,000 books on leadership, and we’ve read a lot of them. When it comes to effective leadership,...

Personal • Sep 19, 2017

We’re spending the day working with leaders from a social justice movement. Each leader wears 19 hats (with fundraising being...

Funding • Sep 18, 2017

Just Ask. This is a core tenet of the For Impact message. If you don’t ask, you don’t get. People...

Story • Sep 15, 2017

I was turned on to Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind after reading a book review from...

Story • Sep 14, 2017

Read the feature article in this month’s Harvard Business Review: Audacious Philanthropy. Lessons from 15 World-Changing Initiatives. The Movements: The...

Funding • Sep 13, 2017

Humans seek order. In a very primitive sense, we’ve evolved to recognize faces (the ‘whole’) over features (the ‘parts’). In...

Story • Sep 12, 2017

15% of The Suddes Group’s focus is in the form of coaching emerging social entrepreneurs. In that area, I will...