Posts Tagged ‘organizational development’
Branding Helps Reach Your Target Market
In a previous article on branding, I concluded with the comment that for branding to be effective, it has to include – even feature – the concept of “What’s In It For Me?” (WIFM) for the people you are trying to reach. This is even more important now with competing interests creating “noise” that interferes…
Read MorePareto’s Principle – The 80-20 Rule
Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923) was an Italian economist who, in 1906, observed that twenty percent of the Italian people owned eighty percent of their country’s accumulated wealth. Over time and through application in a variety of environments, this analytic has come to be called Pareto’s Principle, the 80-20 Rule, and the “Vital Few and Trivial Many…
Read MoreFundraisers Think Like a Plant Manager
Similarities between a non-profit major gifts office and a manufacturing plant.
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