The Stanford Social Innovation Review published an article in 2007 about how non-profits make can really make a difference by reviewing 12 high-impact organizations to really understand why they were so successful. What was really surprising was how much conventional wisdom did NOT play a part in their ability to achieve their mission in unbelievably effective ways. While I highly recommend that you read the entire article here, I'll cover some of it for you, because it's definitely worthwhile.
The first point that I really got out of the article was success comes from knowing you are and what you want to accomplish. This may sound like a simple concept, but if you are working to feed the hungry then getting caught up in how to make your internal structures perfect, you need to be looking at creative partnerships to get food to hungry people, to discover why people are hungry, and how to change that. A lot of times we get really focused on the minutia of our organizations functionality when what we really need to do is start cooking.
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