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On episode 201 our host Kariesha Martinez interviews Firdaus Kharas the author of Creativity: The Key to a Remarkable Life. With great nonprofit examples of how creativity has been used to save lives in public health, Firdaus shares some of the key lessons from the book. Buy the book on Amazon Trigger Warning: Sexual Assault… Read more »
No matter the size of your team or how long you’ve been working together, you are bound to encounter office politics time and again. Someone is jockeying for attention, someone is famously unreliable, the 2 managers down the hall are always butting heads. These are the dynamics that make for a fun episode of The… Read more »
The focus of How Google Works by Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg is the importance of hiring the right people — “smart creatives” — and giving them room to do the job. It is full of great stories of how various products took off and were improved by entrepreneurial staff. Like when co-founder Larry Page, saw a page of… Read more »
Let’s face it: Managing people is tough. And it can seem even tougher in the nonprofit and social impact worlds when you’re managing a team of people who are trying to change the world (for good). The motives are pure, so what do you do when a project is late and sloppily done? Or when… Read more »
What makes a good story or a good storyteller? How do you choose your audience? And, once you have an audience, how do you captivate them? These are questions that we assume many writers, directors, and other creatives ask themselves every day. They’re also questions that we ask ourselves here at Whole Whale, and they’re… Read more »
Remember how in Mad Men Don Draper went from being a child of the Dust Bowl to (purportedly) dreaming up the iconic “Hilltop” ad for Coca-Cola? Or how Peggy Olson rose from the ranks of secretary to copy chief? If you ask IDEO’s cofounders Tom Kelley and David Kelley, that level of creativity isn’t reserved… Read more »
We’re big fans of Gretchen Rubin over here at Whole Whale. So when she released her latest book, The Four Tendencies, we dove right in. One of the most influential authors writing about happiness and human nature, Rubin has the ability to simplify the complex in a humorous way that is widely accessible to many… Read more »
Change is at the foundation of all nonprofit work. Your vision is of a world changed in some way, and your mission requires people and places to make incremental changes toward that end goal. Easier said than done. How do you change things when change is hard? Chip and Dan Heath answer this question in… Read more »
Here at Whole Whale, one thing we’ve learned about building data cultures within nonprofits is that this can be an extremely heavy lift. It’s not because there are any complex coding languages to learn or sophisticated algorithms to analyze; rather it comes down to one easier-said-than-done shift. This is a shift in habit. Often we… Read more »
In a year that has proven challenging for many living in the United States, Brené Brown’s Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone is a timely and important read. Discrimination, politics, and fear are at the forefront of many conversations, and while these conversations can be uncomfortable (especially… Read more »
