Improving Leadership in Nonprofit OrganizationsISBN: 978-0-470-40179-8
Paperback
324 pages
December 2003, Jossey-Bass
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Well-grounded in theory, research, and practice, Improving
Leadership in Nonprofit Organizations is a comprehensive
resource that goes beyond traditional nonprofit management theory
to offer the latest in cutting-edge thought on leadership for
nonprofit organizations. The book offers a wealth of new directions
and ideas for leadership and features chapters written by such
well-known experts as Frances Hesselbein, Stephen Dobbs, Florence
Green, and Jay Conger. Improving Leadership in Nonprofit
Organizations discusses the most compelling leadership
challenges and issues for nonprofit organizations and
- Shows that transformational leaders of nonprofits lead more effective organizations
- Includes a comparison of highly functioning for-profit boards with boards of nonprofit organizations
- Provides an analysis of dysfunctional boards
- Discusses for-profit "organizations of hope" that provide important leadership for social change and responsibility
- Suggests strategies for managing and motivating a volunteer workforce
- Presents a model for leading nonprofit projects
- Offers a valuable model for program evaluation in nonprofit organizations
- Considers the ongoing development of nonprofit leaders
- Includes strategies to develop leadership capacity