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Four publications on why nonprofits fail at innovation, how relationships decay, and what collective action actually requires.

Publication · 6 chapters
FAIL
Why your best projects should fail.

Organizations punish failure instead of studying it. Six chapters built from CB Insights post-mortems, BCG readiness data, and 50 years of missions history.

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95%
products fail
3%
orgs ready
3.6x
perf multiplier
The VC Trap → The Art of Stopping → The Autopsy → The Philanthropy Trap → The 99 Percent → Reader's Guide
Publication · 6 chapters
RAMEN
Profitable enough to say no.

Get profitable before you fundraise. Why the organizations that survive are the ones that hit ramen profitability first — from Goldratt's Theory of Constraints to Mailchimp's $12B exit on zero VC.

74%scaled too early
93%pivoted
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Research brief
DECAY
Relationships don't ghost. They fade.

The research behind Relay. Why friendships die — and a scoring system that catches it happening.

32%mortality risk
90%ties lost/yr
150Dunbar's number
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Publication · 6 chapters
Collective Impact
450,000 faith orgs. Almost none coordinate.

The Kania-Kramer model applied to the faith ecosystem. Common agenda, shared measurement, backbone support — what coordination actually requires.

450Kfaith orgs
$20ROI per $1
5conditions
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