Your Weekend Catch-Up: The superpower no one teaches you
Your weekly dose of strategy and insight, ready when you are.
If your week was a blur of back-to-backs, inbox overload, or just summer-in-full-swing chaos, I’ve got you. Here’s your chance to catch up on everything I published this week—from tough-love truths about nonprofit strategy to a new way to think about newsroom culture (hint: bring rounds).
Whether you're reading for insight, inspiration, or to finally understand why "self-sustaining membership" might be more myth than model, this roundup has something for you.
🧠 Start with the skill no one teaches you:
Managing up isn't a buzzword—it's a career superpower.
🔗 The Skill No One Teaches You: Managing Up »
🏥 Newsrooms, meet your inner teaching hospital:
What if the future of journalism looked a lot more like medicine?
🔗 What Newsrooms Can Learn from Hospitals »
📊 Rebuild the nonprofit model—on purpose:
R&D, talent development, and real impact. Yes, all three.
🔗 What If Nonprofits Worked Like Teaching Hospitals? »
💸 Tear down the myth of “set-it-and-forget-it” fundraising:
Even vending machines need restocking.
🔗 The Myth of the Self-Sustaining Membership »
📉 Cutting marketing might cost more than you think:
The first thing to go is rarely the least important.
🔗 Why Cutting Marketing Costs More Than It Saves »
🌀 And finally, the quiet killer: decision paralysis.
“Let’s wait and see” has a hidden cost.
🔗 The Hidden Cost of “Let’s Wait and See” »
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See you next week, Yoni