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Ethnography Essentials
Designing, Conducting, and Presenting Your Research
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2010
A comprehensive and practical guide to ethnographic research, this book guides you through the process, starting with the fundamentals of choosing and proposing a topic and selecting a research design. It describes methods of data collection (taking notes, participant observation, interviewing, identifying...
The Student Leadership Challenge
Student Workbook and Personal Leadership Journal
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Designed to be used with the The Student Leadership Challenge or the Student Leadership Practices Inventory, this workbook will help students go deeper into the actual practice of leadership, guiding them in better understanding and embodying The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership in a meaningful...
by Mim Carlson, Margaret Donohoe
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2010
As the position of nonprofit ED becomes more demanding, there is a need for an up-to-date resource. This revised edition of the best-selling book is filled with management advice for succeeding as an executive director. This new edition includes thoroughly updated information and new content. It covers...
Her Place at the Table
A Woman's Guide to Negotiating Five Key Challenges to Leadership Success
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2010
Thoroughly revised and updated and with a new Introduction by the authors, this paperback edition of Her Place at the Table draws on extensive interviews with women leaders to help all women negotiate their path to leadership success.
A Woman's Guide to Taking Her Place at the Leadership Table
"It's...
Building the High-Trust Organization
Strategies for Supporting Five Key Dimensions of Trust
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2010
Based on IABC sponsored research in over 60 organizations, this guide provides an easy-to-administer model and instrument for measuring and managing trust in organizations. An explanation and practical applications accompany each of the model's five critical dimensions of trust: Competence, Openness...
Rebooting Work
Transform How You Work in the Age of Entrepreneurship
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
From Silicon Valley leader Maynard Webb, how we can leverage technology to change how we work
Maynard Webb has always been the go-to guy when Silicon Valley companies have thorny problems. Whether revamping eBay's crashing servers (transforming their technology weaknesses into a competitive...
Dynamic Strategy-Making
A Real-Time Approach for the 21st Century Leader
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2009
Praise for Dynamic Strategy-Making
"An astonishingly timely, hopeful, and important book that recasts and freshly imagines strategy-making and integrates theory with practice in the field of strategic management. A must-read for all those who want to learn more about the future of strategy...
Nonprofit Consulting Essentials
What Nonprofits and Consultants Need to Know
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2010
Praise for Nonprofit Consulting Essentials
"The relationship between consulting and nonprofits has never been more important. Both theoretically sophisticated and practically useful, Cagney's research will be of great use to anyone interested in improving nonprofit institutions, deriving...
Women and Philanthropy
Boldly Shaping a Better World
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2010
Women & Philanthropy
Women's philanthropy has led the way in virtually reinventing the world of fundraising and ways of giving. When women make a gift, are in a leadership position, or volunteer their time to a nonprofit or charitable organization, they tend to base their efforts on solid...
The Art of Doing Good
Where Passion Meets Action
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
How to turn personal passion into an organization with impact
For anyone setting out to change the world, launching a nonprofit venture can be a powerful way to enact change. Whether bringing donated eyeglasses to children who have never seen clearly, revamping inner city schools, or bringing...
The Nonprofit Organizational Culture Guide
Revealing the Hidden Truths That Impact Performance
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
Praise for The Nonprofit Organizational Culture Guide
"This is an important book for consultants and managers who work with nonprofit organizations. The Nonprofit Organizational Culture Guide lays out basic theory about how nonprofits come to be and how they operate, and it demonstrates...
EPIC Change
How to Lead Change in the Global Age
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2010
"More than ever, leaders are expected to be the change agents of their organizations. Yet CEO turnover continues to rise and organizations continue to struggle in their efforts to confront the fearsome adaptive challenges of the global age. Epic Change is a path-breaking contribution to the study...
Succeeding at Social Enterprise
Hard-Won Lessons for Nonprofits and Social Entrepreneurs
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2010
From the Social Enterprise Alliance, the organization dedicated to building a robust social enterprise field, comes Succeeding at Social Enterprise. This practical guide is filled with the best practices, tools, guidance, models and successful cases for leaders (and future leaders) of social ventures...
Rapid Results!
How 100-Day Projects Build the Capacity for Large-Scale Change
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2011
Rapid Results! shows how to make large-scale changes succeed by using 100-day results-producing projects to develop this vital implementation capability. Written by Robert H. Schaffer, Ronald N. Ashkenas, and their associates—leaders in the field of change management—Rapid Results! describes an...