Conference Roundup: Learning From the Corporate World

“Nonprofits are not good at that,” Aschermann said. “We carry them, but they do us in every day. But they love the organization [so we keep them on.]”

It’s vital that nonprofits let go of those employees who no longer have a positive impact, he said.

Aschermann did caution that people who come from the private sector have to be educated about nonprofits, their staffs and the way things work, which often is quite different than in the for-profit world.