Leadership in NonProfit Organizations or Management Text Only

Leadership in Nonprofit Organizations: Lessons from the Third Sector

Author: Barry Dym

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.

Table of Contents:

1	Introduction	1
2	Casa Myrna Vazquez	15
3	Theoretical alignment	35
4	The cultural narrative of leadership	47
5	Goodness of fit	67
6	The alignment map	93
7	The dynamics and cycles of alignment	109
8	Community therapeutic day school : a beautifully aligned organization	123
9	The DNA of leadership	135
10	The practice of alignment	149
11	Utilizing states of organizational readiness to achieve alignment	161
12	The alignment exercise	181
13	Inner alignment and the experience of flow in leadership	199

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