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Newsletter: Into Africa

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

During an immersion trip to Africa, Joe Cistone of IPM asked me to help him with the business side of the organization, the beginning of a great partnership. [more] My...
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Newsletter: Intentions and Actions

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

Often our intentions in business are quite different than our actions, which causes organizational and communication dissonance. [more] At a team meeting recently, Bill Leamon said something I hope I...
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Newsletter: How are Your Bones?

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

Great organizations are built on fundamentally solid foundations – otherwise known as “great bones”. [more] As expected, Joe Cistone, CEO of International Partners in Mission, was a smash hit at...
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Newsletter: Horrible Holiday?

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

Peace to you this season. [more] It's December 16, 2008, and today is another bad news day for me. The news I'm getting is probably similar to yours. The report...
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Newsletter – “God’s Not Done With Us Yet” by Tim McCarthy

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

As I look back I am grateful for so much. Lately I’ve been thinking about gratitude I still have for people who believed in me. In fact, I have a...
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Newsletter: From Player to Coach

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

Growth in organizations requires growth in their leaders.  Good leaders learn to make the hard transition from player to coach – doer to teacher of doers. [more] As a big...
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Newsletter – “Finding the Good Guys” by Tim McCarthy

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

My involvement in the foundation’s for-profit businesses is now “from a distance.” And I’m amazed by what that distance lends for perspective I can use to help my partners and...
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Newsletter: Find Good People and Give them Respect

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

Complex problems are best solved by simple, if sometimes difficult approaches.  The most important of these is getting good people and respecting their work. [more] This Irish kid from Ashtabula...
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Newsletter: Everyman Philanthropy

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

Getting started on changing the world can be as simple as joining a group like Social Venture Partners I get a lot of questions from readers whose thoughts seem to...
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Newsletter: Enough

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

The free enterprise system, like its consumers, seems now too focused on financial products and not focused enough on “making and trading”.  We are in danger of becoming insatiable gamblers. ...
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Newsletter: Don’t Die Not Knowing

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

If there is something you’d really like to do, now is the time to measure it, then if it is anything short of fatal, do it. It’s 1988. I’m golfing...
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Newsletter: Doing Well By Doing Good

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

Businesses can serve (both) a social and a profit mission.  Many already are doing this effectively. [more] A couple hundred years ago, our nation's first significant business "professor" Benjamin Franklin,...
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Newsletter: Discipline Solves Problems

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

Good decision making is the result of good discipline. My sister, Felicia, saw me teach at Lakeland Community College’s Entrepreneurship Academy last week and on the way home she said,...
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Newsletter – “Deploying Resources” by Tim McCarthy

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

The first step to creating a more effective organization is determining how to deploy your resources. There are no exceptions. Consider the following: A restaurant has 50 menu items with...
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Newsletter: Decide Democratically, Implement Dictatorially

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

Planning and implementing are different disciplines; good employers are not good listeners 24/7; a business year consists of three months of strategic planning and nine months of disciplined execution. Decide...
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Newsletter: “Dear Reader” by Tim McCarthy

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

Your responses to my request in last month’s blog for input on my book are astounding. First of all, there were a lot of them, over 100 to be exact....
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Newsletter: “Counter Intuitive Truths” by Tim McCarthy

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

In pondering what lessons I’ve learned in 2013, it became clear to me –once again– that solutions to complex problems are frequently simple. Although I have discovered this many times...
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Newsletter: Change Awaits Us

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

Nothing good happens in our lives or our business until we see things as they are and decide to change. [more] A few weeks ago, I saw a presentation from...
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Newsletter: Breaking Down Strategy

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

If you don't stop frequently to check where you've been and where you're going, you won't get to the place you set out for. [more] Over the last month or...
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Newsletter: Balancing the Three-legged Stool

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

All great businesses and organizations are built on three legs which must be equally balanced 1. decision rights, 2. incentives and 3. measurements. [more] In MBA school a few years...
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Newsletter: Another Trip of a Lifetime

By Tim McCarthy

October 15, 2019

Seeing poverty first-hand changes one’s point of view. [more] Editor's Note: I was pleasantly surprised by the response to my writing about our trip to Kenya last month. So, I...
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