What counts as success?
What counts as success? How are you defining excellence?
I was recently talking to a leadership team who offered up a variety of options they were considering for the future of their organization in the face of increasing challenges. They had a few smart, sensible options under consideration: a strategic partnership, a merger with a similar organization, and even an acquisition. Each option would serve the same organizational “client base” of students and families. While some options meant they might no longer be the leaders of a stand-alone organization, each one felt like a chance to ensure their work for their students & families would continue.
One big issue: For their board, success *only* looked like organizational survival.
Board members had made it clear that anything other than forging ahead as an independent organization would feel like failure.
In these unprecedented times, is that fair? Perhaps education nonprofit organizations, their leaders and board members need support to redefine success.
💡 Could we see success in strategic organizational partnerships?
💡 Could nonprofit consolidations, mergers or acquisitions be a brave path forward?
💡 Could excellence be about the courage to pivot, rather than to stick it out for independent organizational survival?
