From the Nonprofit Quarterly:
Somehow, on your way to becoming a great organizer, you became an executive director. Now what?
Somehow, on your way to becoming a great organizer, you became an executive director.
Suddenly you are reviewing bylaws, trying to make sense of a balance sheet, and wondering how your ability to organize people prepared you for this? Let me be the first to say: it didn’t. And that’s okay. You’ll figure out the bylaws and the books, or find other people who can, all so you can get to what you do best: organizing...
https://georgegoehl.substack.com/p/letter-to-a-new-executive-director