Nonprofits are full of managers… micro managers. How many times does an e-mail go out where staff is carbon copied and then a staff member complains about the words used in the e-mail? Or have you ever dealt with a supervisor who asks you to do something but then asks another employee to work on the same project? What about the times where you write an article for the newsletter but it has to be handed off to three different employees before the final copy looks like someone else wrote it? And then there is the micro managing board who has to have their hands on every single project and program done by the staff.

When viewing the nonprofit sector, one of the biggest weaknesses discussed for most nonprofit organizations is lack of transparency. Most people (including my six teachers at Regis University) describe being transparent as being open to the outside shareholders. This includes future donors, clients and board members but the one group of shareholders which is consistently left out is the staff.