You can often predict the culture of an organization by how you are received at the front desk. How do people greet you? How do they treat you while you are waiting in the lobby for your appointment? How does the lobby look? Are you made to feel welcome or treated like you are an intruder?

As a coach/consultant, you look at all evidence you can discover or uncover on the web about a prospective client. Do they have a value statement? What does their human resource department have available on their page about how people are embraced?

“Board Paradox” was the name of the third report for the 2011 Daring to Lead Study (undertaken by Rick Myers, CompassPoint Services and the Meyers Foundation, San Francisco, 2011) with relation to the ongoing dilemma between top leadership in nonprofit organizations and their board of directors.

Nonprofits have been growing at a breakneck speed.  The number of all nonprofits in the United States grew 25 percent while the number of for-profit businesses rose by half of 1 percent, according to the most recent figures compiled by the Urban Institute.

In preparation for the 2014 Leadercast, licensees across the country were provided with some compelling information.

Maeghan Ouimet, Inc. Magazine warns that, “Terrible bosses have a trickle down effect. They bring down the quality of your employees’ work and your bottom line with it.”