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12: The Elements of Great Managing
Based on Gallup's proprietary Q12 survey from the mid-1990s, 12 follows great managers as they harness employee engagement to successfully face a host of challenges in settings around the world.
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A Sense of Urgency
In A Sense of Urgency, Kotter shines the spotlight on the crucial first step in his eight-step process for implementing successful transformations: creating a sense of urgency by getting people to actually see and feel the need for change.
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Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant
Based on a study of 150 strategic moves spanning more than a hundred years and thirty industries, authors W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne argue that lasting success comes from creating 'blue oceans': untapped new market spaces ripe from growth. And the business world has caught on - companies around the world are skipping the bloody red oceans of rivals and creating their very own blue oceans.
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Building Nonprofit Capacity: A Guide to Managing Change Through Organizational Lifecycles
Learn how to anticipate and manage change in your organization for greater stability. Recognize the importance of identifying where your nonprofit lies within the organizational lifecycle framework and understand how you can weather each transition. Benefit from the authors’ blend of numerous lifecycle models and practices so you can prepare for your organization’s approaching challenges. […]
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Buy-In: Saving Your Good Ideas From Getting Shot Down
Smart, practical, and filled with useful advice, Buy-In equips you to anticipate and combat attacks--so your good idea makes it through to make a positive change.
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Cause for Change: The Why and How of Nonprofit Millennial Engagement
Written by Millennials about Millennials, Cause for Change examines strategies for engaging Millennials as constituents, volunteers, and donors, and focuses on how organizations can realign themselves to better respond to this group of 80 million strong.
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Charity Case: How the Nonprofit Community Can Stand Up for Itself and Really Change the World
We deny the social sector the ability to grow because of our short-sighted demand that it send every short-term dollar into direct services. Yet if the sector cannot grow, it can never match the scale of our great social problems. Grounded in the author’s clear vision and deep social sector experience, Charity Case is a fascinating wake-up call for fixing the culture that thwarts our charities’ ability to change the world.
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Community: The Structure of Belonging
What Block provides in this inspiring book is an exploration of the exact way community can emerge from fragmentation: How is community built? How does the transformation occur? What fundamental shifts are involved? He explores a way of thinking about our places that creates an opening for authentic communities to exist and details what each of us can do to make that happen.
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Creating Value in Nonprofit-Business Collaborations: New Thinking and Practice
With over a hundred case examples from around the globe and hundreds of literature references, the book reveals how collaboration between businesses and nonprofit organizations can most effectively co-create significant economic, social, and environmental value for society, organizations, and individuals.
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Crucial Confrontations: Tools for Resolving Broken Promises, Violated Expectations, and Bad Behavior
Broken promises, missed deadlines, poor behavior--they don't just make others' lives miserable; they can sap up to 50 percent of organizational performance and account for the vast majority of divorces. Crucial Confrontations offers the tools for improving relationships in the workplace and in life and for resolving all these problems - permanently.
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Culture Eats Strategy for Lunch: The Secret of Extraordinary Results Igniting the Passion Within
This book is a crash course for turning culture into competitive advantage. Culture isn’t the enemy of strategy and performance, but an equal player in the game, not to be underestimated or overlooked.
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Death by Meeting: A Leadership Fable…About Solving the Most Painful Problem in Business
In his latest page-turning work of business fiction, best-selling author Patrick Lencioni provides readers with another powerful and thought-provoking book, this one centered around a cure for the most painful yet underestimated problem of modern business: bad meetings. And what he suggests is both simple and revolutionary.
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Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work
Decisive is the Heath brothers’ most powerful—and important—book yet, offering fresh strategies and practical tools enabling us to make better choices. Because the right decision, at the right moment, can make all the difference.
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Do More Than Give: Six Practices of Donors Who Change the World
In good economic times or bad, this book provides guidance for givers to increase the impact of their charitable resources and go beyond check-writing to help solve problems and change the world.
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Driven to Distraction at Work: How to Focus and Be More Productive
You know the feeling: you can’t focus; you feel increasingly overwhelmed by a mix of nonstop demands and technology that seems to be moving at the speed of light; and you’re frustrated just trying to get everything done well—and on time. Not only is this taking a toll on performance, it’s impacting your sense of well-being outside the office. It’s time to reclaim control.
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Embracing Cultural Competency: A Roadmap for Nonprofit Capacity Builders
No “how-to” manual exists on cultural competency. And, compared to other topics in nonprofit management, little exists on the skills and strategies needed to address racism and inequity. Building cultural competency is an ongoing journey that nonprofit leaders choose to take because they know the end result will be a more inclusive, connected, and effective organization. Patricia St. Onge and her contributing authors help readers grapple with the urgent issues that can transform capacity builders into change agents in the nonprofit sector.
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Exposing the Elephants: Creating Exceptional Nonprofits
Providing an insider's look into the need for change, Exposing the Elephants: Creating Exceptional Nonprofits gives an eye-opening assessment of the state of the nonprofit sector today, as well as practical and useful recommendations for real change from within.
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Fail Better: Design Smart Mistakes and Succeed Sooner
Whether you’re rolling out a new product from a city-view office or rolling up your sleeves to deliver a social service in the field, learning why and how to embrace failure can help you do better, faster. Smart leaders, entrepreneurs, and change agents design their innovation projects with a key idea in mind: ensure that every failure is maximally useful.
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Fired Up or Burned Out: How to Reignite Your Team’s Passion, Creativity and Productivity
In his book, Fired Up or Burned Out, Michael Stallard shares the three key actions necessary to transform even a lethargic, disconnected organization or office into an impassioned, innovative, and thriving workplace.
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Firing Lousy Board Members…And Helping the Others Succeed
Every organization deserves a good board and effective board members. And every board member deserves a chance to be an effective board member. But too often, things aren’t working. Board members aren’t effective – and staff aren’t helping them to be effective. Or, staff are doing all that is possible – but the board member is causing too many problems. This book tells you how to fix the situation.
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Forces for Good: Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits
An innovative guide to how great nonprofits achieve extraordinary social impact. What makes great nonprofits great? Authors Crutchfield and McLeod Grant searched for the answer over several years, employing a rigorous research methodology which derived from books on for-profits like Built to Last.
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Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success
For generations, we have focused on the individual drivers of success: passion, hard work, talent, and luck. But in today’s dramatically reconfigured world, success is increasingly dependent on how we interact with others.
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Influencer: The Power to Change Anything
Influencer takes you on a fascinating journey from San Francisco to Thailand where you'll see how seemingly “insignificant” people are making incredibly significant improvements in solving problems others would think impossible. You'll learn how savvy folks make change not only achievable and sustainable, but inevitable. You'll discover why some managers have increased productivity repeatedly and significantly-while others have failed miserably.
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The Influential Fundraiser: Using the Psychology of Persuasion to Achieve Outstanding Results
How to apply the latest developments in psychology and neurology for better fundraising and influencing skills.
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It’s Not Just Who You Know: Transform Your Life (and Your Organization) by Turning Colleagues and Contacts into Lasting, Genuine Relationships
In this powerful guide to reaching out to others, Spaulding takes Dale Carnegie’s classic philosophy to the next level—how to create lasting relationships that go well beyond mere superficial contacts and “second floor” relationships.
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Leaders Make the Future: Ten New Leadership Skills for an Uncertain World
Drawing on the latest forecasts from the Institute for the Future—the first futures think tank ever to outlive its forecasts—this powerful book explores the external forces that are shaking the foundations of leadership and unveils ten critical new leadership skills.
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Leap of Reason: Managing to Outcomes in an Era of Scarcity
Leap of Reason is the product of decades of hard-won insights from philanthropist Mario Morino, McKinsey & Company, and top social-sector innovators. It is intended to spark the critically important conversations that every nonprofit board and leadership team should have in this new era of austerity.
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Let’s Stop Meeting Like This: Tools to Save Time and Get More Done
Ugh―meetings. They’re where productivity goes to die, right? There has to be a better way. According to leading consultants Dick and Emily Axelrod, there is.
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Leveraging Good Will: Strengthening Nonprofits by Engaging Businesses
Leveraging Good Will shows how nonprofit organizations can access the extraordinary resources of businesses, and how for-profits can benefit from partnering with nonprofits.
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Liquid Leadership: From Woodstock to Wikipedia – Multigenerational Management Ideas That Are Changing the Way We Run Things
We have always had 4 Generations in the workforce -- BUT, for the first time in history we have 4 Generations with very different behaviors, expectations and work ethics. How do you get employees engaged, bridge the generational gap and retain your best talent?
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Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries
What do Apple CEO Steve Jobs, comedian Chris Rock, prize-winning architect Frank Gehry, and the story developers at Pixar films all have in common? Bestselling author Peter Sims found that rather than start with a big idea or plan a whole project in advance, they make a methodical series of little bets, learning critical information from lots of little failures and from small but significant wins.
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Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
Why do some ideas thrive while others die? And how do we improve the chances of worthy ideas? In Made to Stick, accomplished educators and idea collectors Chip and Dan Heath tackle head-on these vexing questions. Inside, the brothers Heath reveal the anatomy of ideas that stick and explain ways to make ideas stickier, such as applying the “human scale principle,” using the “Velcro Theory of Memory,” and creating “curiosity gaps.”
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Match: A Systematic, Sane Process for Hiring the Right Person Every Time
Why is it that so many companies accept mediocre hiring results as the norm? The answer is simple. It doesn't occur to them that, in fact, there is a process that virtually guarantees hiring the right person every time. That's what MATCH is about.
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Mission-Based Management: Leading Your Not-for-Profit in the 21st Century, 3rd Ed.
As a nonprofit manager, you have to be more effective and more efficient than ever to win funding and support to ensure your organization pursues its mission, meets community needs, and maintains its budget, while juggling the demands of funders, clientele, boards, staff, and community. This Third Edition of Mission-Based Managementprovides comprehensive, hands-on guidance that addresses your unique concerns as a nonprofit manager and policy-maker.
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Nine Minutes on Monday: The Quick and Easy Way to Go from Manager to Leader
Low performance and high turnover is not the result of lazy, apathetic workers. It's not about decreasing budgets. And it's not about a terrible economy. It's about leadership that doesn't engage employees.
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Nonprofit Mergers & Alliances
Using real-world examples, case studies, and enduring frameworks, Nonprofit Mergers and Alliances, Second Edition offers clear, practical, step-by-step guidance through the merger and alliance development process.
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Nonprofit Strategic Positioning: Decide Where to Be, Plan What to Do
Nonprofit Strategic Positioning: Decide Where to Be, Plan What to Do is the first nonprofit-oriented book to describe strategic positioning as an alternative to traditional strategic planning.
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Nonprofit Sustainability: Making Strategic Decisions for Financial Viability
Find out why your nonprofit strategies for sustainability must encompass both financial and programmatic elements. Learn how to map your business model and identify profitability and relative impact. Make sound choices to adjust your business model and optimize your outcomes. Examine your mix of fundraising and/or earned income sources as they relate to organizational strengths.
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Ordinary Greatness: It’s Where You Least Expect It …Everywhere
Enabling readers to maximize leadership skills, no matter the venue, Ordinary Greatness helps those who are in leadership positions to optimize their organizational results by improving their ability to recognize and create greatness in those who they lead.
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Performing Under Pressure: The Science of Doing Your Best When It Matters Most
Performing Under Pressure tackles the greatest obstacle to personal success, whether in a sales presentation, at home, on the golf course, interviewing for a job, or performing onstage at Carnegie Hall. Despite sports mythology, no one "rises to the occasion" under pressure and does better than they do in practice. The reality is pressure makes us do worse, and sometimes leads us to fail utterly. But there are things we can do to diminish its effects on our performance.
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Savvy nonprofits use strategic management, marketing, technology, leadership to be competitive. With strapped budgets, many nonprofits cannot afford to pay for these resources. However, businesses are an often overlooked as an effective source of skilled professionals who can supply the needed skills.
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Repeatability: Build Enduring Businesses for a World of Constant Change
In Repeatability, Chris Zook and James Allen—leaders of Bain & Company’s influential Strategy practice—warn that complexity is a silent killer of profitable growth. Successful companies endure by maintaining simplicity at their core.
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Rippling: How Social Entrepreneurs Spread Innovation Throughout the World
Drawing on the knowledge and experience of working with hundreds the world's top social change leaders in all fields, Beverly Schwartz presents a model for change based on five proven principles that any individual leader or organization can apply to bring about deep, lasting and systematic change.
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Salsa, Soul, and Spirit: Leadership for a Multicultural Age
One of America’s historic strengths has been our ability to incorporate aspects from many different cultures to create a stronger whole. Our music, literature, language, architecture, food, fashion, and more have all benefitted. But leadership approaches have remained distressingly Eurocentric.
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Smarter, Faster, Better. Strategies for Effective, Enduring, and Fulfilled Leadership
In this groundbreaking book, acclaimed executive coach Karlin Sloan offers leaders a variety of self-assessments, habits, strategies, and sustainable practices that they can use to become what today's marketplace demands; smarter, faster, and better.
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Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard
Why is it so hard to make lasting changes in our companies, in our communities, and in our own lives? The primary obstacle is a conflict that’s built into our brains, say Chip and Dan Heath. Psychologists have discovered that our minds are ruled by two different systems—the rational mind and the emotional mind—that compete for control.
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The Abundant Not-for-Profit: How Talent (Not Money) Will Transform Your Organization
It's time to combine two supposedly opposite concepts: abundance and not-for-profit. It's time to replace scarcity with possibility. We've seen it happen. It's a game changer.
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The Board Game: A Story of Hope and Inspiration for CEOs and Governing Boards
This is the compelling, fictional account of David Andrews - a man unprepared for the complexity of the relationship he has with his Board of Trustees. He discovers he is no match for some of the misguided and mean-spirited individuals he encounters.
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The Charismatic Organization: 8 Ways to Grow a Nonrpofit that Builds Buzz, Delights Donors, and Energizes Employees
The authors offer a framework that allows organizations to go beyond quick fixes and fundraising strategies to a broader paradigm that encompasses community and organization building. The book provides numerous examples of how successful organizations have made this shift, as well as action steps that all organizations can take to perform better.
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The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work
Our most commonly held formula for success is broken. Conventional wisdom holds that if we work hard we will be more successful, and if we are more successful, then we’ll be happy. If we can just find that great job, win that next promotion, lose those five pounds, happiness will follow. But recent discoveries in the field of positive psychology have shown that this formula is actually backward: Happiness fuels success, not the other way around.
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