6 principles to help your entire nonprofit organization be more successful

By Tom Harrison

5. The whisper of the CEO

Rich Stearns, CEO of World Vision U.S., shared an important lesson he learned as he rose to the top of corporate America. He calls it "the whisper of the CEO."

Rich observed that the very things that help you to succeed on your way up the ladder—knowing the answer, passionately telling people what needed to be done, pounding the table—can backfire once you get to the top.

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Tom Harrison is the former chair of Russ Reid and Omnicom's Nonprofit Group of Agencies. He served as chair of the NonProfit PRO Editorial Advisory Board.

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