Engine of Impact: Essentials of Strategic Leadership in the Nonprofit Sector
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| Rating | : | 4.62 (968 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0804796432 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 264 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-09-28 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Engine of Impact shows how nonprofits can apply the principles of strategic leadership to attract greater financial support and leverage that funding to maximum effect.As Good to Great author Jim Collins writes in his foreword, this book offers "a detailed roadmap of disciplined thought and action for turning a good nonprofit into one that can achieve great impact at scale."William F. The largest intergenerational transfer of wealth in history will soon be under way, bringing with it the potential for huge increases in philanthropic funding. Meehan III and Kim Starkey Jonker identify seven essential components of strategic leadership that set high-achieving organizations apart from the rest of the nonprofit sector. We are entering a new eraan era of impact. Together, these components form an "engine of impact"a system that organizations must build, tune, and fuel if they hope to make a real difference in the world.Drawing on decades of teaching, advising, gran
William F. Kravis Prize in Nonprofit Leadership. Kim Starkey Jonker is President and CEO of King Philanthropies and the former Executive Director of the Henry R. 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. Together, they co-authored the popular Stanford Social Innovation Review se
These authors appreciate the weight on leaders' shoulders, while offering a detailed roadmap to maximize their impact. In Engine of Impact, they have it. It draws on both the classics and the authors' deep knowledge of our field. They go beyond the typical rhetoric regarding 'what the nonprofit sector can learn from business' and give these organizations their duewith great advice. Enter Bill Meehan and Kim Jonker who, in simple and lively prose, draw upon deep research and lived experience to deliver the essential field guide on how to do it right. Bill Meehan and Kim Jonker are quintessential big thin