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Succession Planning In Nonprofits: The Distance Between What We Know and What We Do
By Dr. Amanda N Gibson, 220 pp.
America’s First Book Investigating Succession Planning in Nonprofit Organizations.
It ranks high in every nonprofit leader’s priorities. Nearly all of them rate it as top priority. And yet it’s seldom done. Thinking so far in the future… It makes even the most conscientious leaders postpone.
But now comes Dr. Gibson’s research. And short of a medical elixir, it’s the next best thing for emboldening you, your board members and volunteers, to plan with skill, finesse, and powerful results.
What research convincingly shows – and one reason leaders will applaud the book and board members will devour it – is that it doesn’t take stellar sales skills to be an effective planner. Nearly everyone, regardless of their forecasting ability, can become a highly effective succession planner if they follow a few guidelines.
OF RELATED INTEREST:
NONPROFIT REALITIES Everybody Must Face,
by Dr. Amanda N Gibson
If every member of every nonprofit organization across America read this book, it’s no exaggeration to say that millions of dollars would be better managed. How could it be otherwise when after spending just one hour with this book, readers everywhere would understand a lot more about nonprofit organizations and the hardships they face.
About the Author
Dr. Amanda N. Gibson is one of the few people who can communicate profound ideas to audiences of all types – from CEOs to career transitioners to those new to the field.
She is teaching at Broward College and earned her Doctorate in Business Administration in 2013 from the University of Phoenix.
She is also the founder of ANG Management Coaching and Consulting (ANG-MCC), a woman-owned provider of training, leadership development, and consulting services to community-based organizations.
Dr. Amanda N. Gibson has over 15 years of multi-faceted work experience, with notable achievements in teaching, mentoring, project management, financial environment, and consulting. Her comprehensive background and exposure to cultural diversity gained by working abroad and in non-profit organizations complement the scholarly degrees. Passionate about Nonprofit Management, Entrepreneurship and Leadership, Dr. Gibson is a keen researcher and scholar while equally interested to share her accumulated experience through consulting, teaching and writing.
From a professional standpoint, our team brings the experience of a diversity of challenges and the practical knowledge acquired by mastering them. We are sure that our strengths in leadership, skills, personal attributes, and motivation will prove invaluable to our future clients as it has been in the past – by allowing us to think of solutions across disciplines.
Our company offers a full complement of seminars and training modules on a variety of topics. Find our Course Catalog online or write us to request a printed catalog. Our instructors are the best in their field, supplementing the theoretical knowledge with in-depth practical experience.
We can also help young entrepreneurs, small and medium organizations, establish and optimize their business thru consulting. We have consultants with multi-faceted experience in all aspects of activity of nonprofit organizations, with technical/industrial background, with HR and educational experience. Drop us a word and we’ll make sure to put you in touch with that member of our team who can help you best.
Last but not least, Dr. Amanda N. Gibson has published two books dealing with nonprofit organizations’ issues, and has two more in the works. If you have suggestions for articles or research, please get in touch!
Hoping to meet you soon at one of our events,
The ANG-MCC team
The Federal Acquisition Regulation Council has published a final rule, effective October 1, 2015, amending a number of the dollar thresholds in the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR), and will allow for their ongoing adjustment on a periodic basis. The full text of all of the changes can be found HERE Some of the key provisions are:
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Rat droppings, human urine and arsenic – just some of the substances found in fake beauty products which police say are putting consumers’ lives at risk.
Make-up, perfume, electrical hair stylers and sun cream are among the counterfeit goods being highlighted by the City of London Police in a campaign bearing the slogan “wake up – don’t fake up!”.
While they are both fake and both mislead the public, counterfeit cosmetics pose a very real danger. They often contain high levels of harmful materials. For example, fake versions of cosmetics by MAC and Benefit have been found to contain up to 19 times the legal level of lead. While a counterfeit bag and counterfeit lipstick are both fake, the lipstick is far more dangerous. It can possibly contain arsenic, mercury, copper and cadmium.
Checking the authenticity of a product is more difficult when shopping online since consumers cannot gauge the look and feel of a product before making the purchase. Police said stock images of well-known products also tend to be used online, which deceive consumers into believing they are buying the real deal.
Fake electrical products such as hair curlers, dryers and straighteners are not subject to the same rigorous safety tests as genuine items and so the bogus product is often dangerous.
This can result in electrocution or the item overheating and catching fire, and these faulty items risks inflicting burns on their users as well as putting homes and lives in danger.
Police said laboratory tests have shown counterfeit perfume often contains poisonous chemicals including cyanide and even human urine. Fake cosmetics such as eyeliner, mascara, lip gloss and foundation have been found to contain toxic levels of chemicals and other harmful substances such as arsenic, mercury and lead.
All of these can cause allergic reactions, such as skin irritation, swelling, rashes and burns, as well as provoking long-term health problems.
Counterfeit make-up is often produced in unsanitised factories and there have been cases where rats’ droppings and poison have also been found in the fake cosmetics.
Fraudsters have also been known to produce counterfeit sun cream and advertise it as well-known household brands. This often offers no protection against harmful UV rays which could lead to long-term skin damage, as well as containing substances which cause irritation to the skin.
The USB SuperSpeed specification and accompanying hardware are about to undergo a number of major evolutionary makeovers that will leave little room for the Thunderbolt hardware interface to expand in the market.
Both USB SuperSpeed and Thunderbolt have recently undergone version upgrades – USB moved to v3.1 (SuperSpeed+) and Thunderbolt to v2. And both upgrades double the maximum throughput speed — USB 3.1 to 10Gbps and Thunderbolt 2 to 20Gbps.
But, the USB SuperSpeed specification has a lot of elasticity built into it.
“This tech will scale well beyond 10Gbps,” said Rahman Ismail, a USB 3.0 senior architect at Intel. “We believe we already have a protocol that will scale well past 40Gbps.”
Other than speed, Thunderbolt 2 has another advantage over USB 3.1 – 10 watts of power compared with USB SuperSpeed’s 4.5 watts.
But, the USB connector specification is also getting long-awaited improvements that will give users a reversible plug orientation and the opportunity for a more robust cable offering up to 100 watts of power. Again, like Thunderbolt, the new USB Type-C Connector means both the cable and the connector plug are symmetrical and the technology will eventually offer 10 times the power of Thunderbolt 2.
The new USB Type-C Connector specification is expected to be completed in July. A more robust version of the cables, capable of supporting 100 watts of power, are expected later next year.
Malware writers are interested in Linux after all. Russian security firm Dr Web has reportedfinding a shadowy Trojan that sets out to steal passwords on the open source platform as well as OS X.
Technical details of Wirenet.1’s operation and technique for spreading are sparse for now, but the company reports that the backdoor program targets browser passwords for Opera, Firefox, Chrome, Chromium, and as well as applications such as Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, Pidgin.
Under Linux it copies itself to the ~ / WIFIADAPT directory before attempting to connect to a command and control server hosted at 212.7.208.65 using an AES encrypted channel. That at least offers a simple way of blocking communication and any further payloads.
Dr Web made a name for itself earlier this year reporting on the infamous Flashback Trojanthat hit Mac users on an unprecedented scale.
It’s not clear whether Wirenet’s cross-platform capabilities extend to targeting Windows systems but it is possible that avoiding Microsoft’s OS is a way of keeping off the radar of security firms.
Cross platform malware is rare but not unheard of, the usual technique being to hook into Java in search of victims using OS X.
Malware specifically designed to steal credentials from Linux systems is almost unheard of but might, on the basis of this new discovery, become a little less so in future.
Should Linux users be worried? Probably not. the details of how this malware might grab root mode on a Linux system are unknown. Atacking Linux users would also be a pretty rarified activity unless it was part of a highly-targeted attack.
Links to sources: http://www.techworld.com/news/security/linux-users-targeted-by-password-stealing-wirenet-trojan-3378804/
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