The webinar discusses the complexities of merging organizations focused on community service. Hoang Murphy shares insights about the importance of communication and trust in fostering relationships between merging entities. He emphasizes the need for power balancing, ensuring equity through leadership roles. Engagement between board members from both organizations is highlighted as essential to build a foundation of trust, which is critical for successful collaboration. He reflects on his initial skepticism regarding mergers but recognizes the potential for positive outcomes with thoughtful strategies and open dialogue.
I came into this conversation pretty dubious...Hey, [merging] is not as easy as some people might think. Even when you all want the similar outcome, things can get in the way.
To honor the gift fully, we also then had to make sure that there was power balancing and equity in that. And that meant that she needed to be my boss.
It shows trust: trust in my board chair that they were going to have conversations that were productive and meaningful...and then they're signaling trust to me that I was going to echo that as well.
We should have been more thoughtful...that for this to truly...honor the gift fully, we also then had to make sure that... Shereese was on my board.
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