The Pie Chart of Deception

More often than not, charities work to mitigate harms caused by business. Every year, corporations externalize trillions in costs to society and the planet. Nonprofits form to absorb those costs but have at their disposal only a tiny portion of the profits that corporations were able to generate by externalizing those costs in the first place.This ... See more
Bruce Buchanan • Opinion | the Impossible Math of Philanthropy - The New York Times
In all of his talks, Tierney questions this conventional wisdom, arguing that there is bad overhead (say, paying for swank office space) and good overhead (such as investing in technology to track results). Tierney counsels philanthropists not to place restrictions on how their donation can be spent (Sheryl Sandberg, for one, heeded this sage advic
... See moreStewart D. Friedman • Leading the Life You Want: Skills for Integrating Work and Life
The key to financial health is getting everyone to make financial decisions as if they were spending their own money out of their own checkbook. Too many people spend a “budget” of someone else's money. Witness the spending sprees at the end of each year.
James A. Belasco • Flight of the Buffalo: Soaring to Excellence, Learning to Let Employees Lead
Charity Case: How the Nonprofit Community Can Stand Up For Itself and Really Change the World
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