Barry Dym, Harry Hutson

Broschiertes Buch

Leadership in Nonprofit Organizations

Lessons From the Third Sector

Beschreibung

Leadership in Nonprofit Organizations is about exemplary leadership as found in both corporate and nonprofit organizations. Taking a fresh approach to the study of leadership, the authors perform research in nonprofits both to understand and appreciate their complexities and to reach conclusions about the nature of leadership in any context, including for-profit and governmental entities. Features and Benefits: Case studies of nonprofit leadership that affirm public-minded, mission-driven leaders and acknowledge their contributions Critical review of literature on leadership that encourages diversity in leadership models and approaches Chapters on leadership constructs such as fit, dynamics, readiness and flow that provide useful insights and methods to enable success Overarching concept of alignment that reframes leadership as an active process where the awareness of and response to the interplay of multiple, relevant factors matters more than charisma, pedigree or power Leadership in Nonprofit Organizations is an ideal core text for graduate courses in nonprofit leadership. It could be used as a supplementary text in graduate courses in organization development and leadership, as well as courses in community development, human ecology, and human services. In addtion, practitioners, managers, and nonprofit organizational stakeholders will find it of great interest.

Autor

Barry Dym is an organization development consultant, executive coach, psychotherapist, and entrepreneur.  His clients range from small nonprofits, high tech start up companies, and both public and private school systems to large corporations, such as State Street Corporation, The Boston Globe, Honeywell, and Massachusetts Financial Services (MFS).    He was the co-founder of  the Family Institute of Cambridge (1975) and the founder and Director of both the Boston Center for Family Health (1985) and WorkWise Research and Consulting (1997).  For fourteen years, he served as a Lecturer at the Harvard Medical School.   He has written three previous books, Leadership Transitions, Couples, and Readiness and Change in Couple Therapy, co-founded a professional journal, Families, Systems, and Health, and newsletter, Collaborative Family Health Care, and has also written many articles, including "Utilizing States of Organizational Readiness" (with Harry Hutson), winner of the Larry Porter Prize as the best article on organizational development, 1998-99,  " Resistance in Organizations: how to Recognize, Understand and Respond to It ,"  "Integrating Entrepreneurship with Professional Leadership," and " Forays: The Power of Small Changes." 

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sage Publications, Inc
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Januar 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 365g
• ISBN-13: 9780761929246
• ISBN-10: 076192924X
• Artikelnr.: 22120993