What are your thoughts on nonprofit management styles? (Bottom-up vs Top-down)

[AdamWargon]

@pisum

Different management styles are appropriate for different organizations, different boards, different executive leadership, different missions, etc.

What works best depends on what your particular situation is.

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As promised (by the AI?), Peter Meisenheimer’s comments were related to the post above:

@pmeisenheimer

I’ve reported to and served on a number of not-for-profit and charitable boards.

I’ve seen crazy ideas succeed, and apparently bullet-proof concepts die horrible deaths.

When you tease them apart, the good and bad outcomes pretty much all come down to money, planning, management systems, and the team.

Every organization has its own mix of competencies; from the outside, iNat’s strongest suit appears to be its team.