Direction, Alignment, Commitment: Achieving Better Results Through Leadership, First Edition

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Each of our groups explored options for dealing with the particular leadership problem they had uncovered and experimented with new leadership practices to see what worked best in their specific situation.

To help understand and explore the pros and cons of radically shifting the foundation’s strategic direction, the board established a subcommittee comprising a few board members and senior leadership from the foundation staff. The subcommittee examined what other foundations that made major strategic shifts in direction had done and what they had learned. The subcommittee also spent time talking with different community leaders engaged in improving the health of state citizens. After sharing what they learned with the full ...