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1 online resource (xiv, 234 pages) |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"More than 1.4 million non-profit organizations operate in the United States. These organizations have a combined revenue of some $2.26 trillion and employ 10% of the nation's workforce. Over 60 million people serve as board members and volunteers. These organizations represent the promise and aspirations of America. Every day in communities big and small, nonprofit organizations bring people together to feed, shelter, care for, heal, inform, protect, educate, inspire, nurture, build, encourage and protect. The missions of nonprofit organizations are central to the health and prosperity of our nation. Some of these organizations are strong and thriving, but many struggle to survive. What makes the difference? Why do some nonprofit organizations prosper and grow while others struggle? The answer is leadership, but most leadership models are based on the experience of successful for-profit corporations. Nonprofits especially small nonprofits have unique leadership requirements. They require a mission focused leadership model. The Five Truths for Transformational Leaders engages professionals and board leaders on a quest to achieve extraordinary results. The five truths are based on the authors forty years of experience as a nonprofit leader and interviews with staff and board leaders of organizations that achieved unprecedented, sustained transformational growth. Each of the five truths is supported by quotes and observations from board and staff leaders of organizations that more than doubled operating revenue over five years"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction: The Origin of the Five Truths for Transformational Leaders -- Chapter Organization -- Background Information: The Community Centers of Mission City -- Chapter 1 Truth 1: Be Fanatical About Mission -- Community Centers of Mission City: Board Meeting Summary -- Three Reasons for a Fanatical Believe in Mission -- Questions and Thoughts for Aspiring -- Community Centers of Mission City Board Meeting One Month Later -- Mission-Driven CPOs -- My Mission Origin Story -- Notes for Board Members |
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Resource Center for Truth 1 -- Chapter 2 Truth 2: Fix, Stabilize, or Replace Systems, Practices, and People Who Are Not Working -- Helen's First Board Meeting as CPO -- Fix and Stabilize Systems and Practices -- Make Needed People Changes -- Two Weeks after Helen's First Board Meeting -- Ruthless Leadership? -- Community Centers of Mission City Emergency Board Meeting One Week Later -- Caution: Solving Problems Can Be Addictive -- Summary -- Notes to Board Members -- Resource Center for Truth 2 -- Chapter 3 Truth 3: Establish a Mission-Driven Strategy |
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Six Months Later: Community Centers of Mission City Board Retreat -- A Mission-Driven Strategy -- Keeping a Mission Focus -- Hiring Mistakes -- On-the-Job Orientation and Training -- Community Centers of Mission City Measurement Plan -- Measurement Resistance -- Operating Versus Restricted Funding -- Community Centers of Mission City Board Meeting One Month After Board Retreat -- Community Centers of Mission City Strategy Overview -- Summary -- Notes for Board Members -- Resource Center for Truth 3 -- Chapter 4 Truth 4: Execution Drives Results -- Community Center of Mission City One Year Later |
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Relentlessly Communicate Strategy at Every Opportunity -- Focus on What Is Most Important -- Strategic Planning Committee Meeting to Review Operating Plan for Coming Year -- Establish an Annual Plan with Clear Priorities, Targets, and Progress Measures -- Community Centers of Mission City Annual Operating Plan -- Execute the Plan -- Ends Versus Means Goals -- Summary -- Notes for Board Members -- Resource Center for Truth 4 -- Chapter 5 Truth 5: Continue to Grow as a Leader -- Let's Start at the Beginning -- My Leadership Journey -- Community Center of Mission City: Three Years Later |
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Leadership Changes -- Four Keys to Continuously Growing as a Leader -- Nurturing a Growth Mindset -- Gender Differences? -- Continue to Learn -- Some Leaders Have a Specialty -- Executivitis -- Summary -- Notes for Board Members -- What About Succession Planning? -- Resource Center for Truth 5 -- Chapter 6 The Road Ahead: Trends and Challenges That Will Shape the Future -- Community Centers of Mission City: Six Years Later -- Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities -- What Will Be Required of Leaders? -- Developing the Next Generation of Leaders -- Final Thoughts -- Notes for Board Members |
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Nonprofit organizations -- Management.
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Leadership.
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Associations sans but lucratif -- Gestion. |
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Leadership. |
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Leadership |
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Nonprofit organizations -- Management |
| Added Title |
Five truths for transformational leaders |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Mishrell, Ed. 5 truths for transformational leaders First edition. Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley, [2023] 9781394187003 (DLC) 2022056913 |
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9781394187010 electronic book |
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1394187017 electronic book |
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9781394187027 electronic book |
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1394187025 electronic book |
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hardcover |
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