Engine of Impact: Essentials of Strategic Leadership in the Nonprofit Sector
by William F. Meehan III and Kim Starkey Jonker
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The nonprofit sector is experiencing an era of impact as it prepares for the largest intergenerational transfer of wealth in history. These two factors form a unique opportunity for organizations to strategically prepare for how they will advance their fundraising efforts for maximum results. In light of this watershed moment, the authors of Engine of Impact have created seven essential components of strategic leadership that, together, form an engine, which will propel your organization successfully into the future.
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- Learn about seven essential components of strategic leadership that set high-achieving organizations apart
from the rest. - Set forth best practices using the authors’ real-world examples about common management challenges.
- Draw on the authors’ decades of teaching, advising, grantmaking, and research to arm yourself with
actionable guidelines. - Learn how to build your own engine of impact to make a real difference in the world.
About the Author
William F. Meehan III is the Lafayette Partners Lecturer in Strategic Management at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business and a Director Emeritus of McKinsey & Company. Kim Starkey Jonker is President and CEO of King Philanthropies, Lecturer in Management at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and the former Executive Director of the Henry R. Kravis Prize in Nonprofit Leadership. Together, they co-authored the popular Stanford Social Innovation Review series “Fundamentals, Not Fads.”
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