Leadership in Nonprofit Organizations: Lessons From the Third Sector
Language: English
Published by Sage Pubns, 2005
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1st edition. 236 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.
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- Title
- Leadership in Nonprofit Organizations: Lessons From the Third Sector
- Author
- Dym, Barry/ Hutson, Harry
- Publisher
- Sage Pubns
- Publication year
- 2005
- Condition
- Brand New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1412914469
- ISBN 13
- 9781412914468
- Item weight
- 0.44 kilograms
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.
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About the Author
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.”
Harry Hutson, is a leadership and organization consultant whose practice focuses on the human side of strategic change. He designs and leads system-wide planning events, results-focused workshops and team-building exercises. In addition, he provides individual coaching for executives.
He performed in senior human resources roles for more than twenty years at three multinational corporations--Cummins Engine, Avery Dennison, and Global Knowledge Network. A former secondary school teacher in Moorestown, NJ, High School, his doctoral research explored relationships between the views of influential people in a local community and what was being taught in the public schools. He has served for many years on the Board of Directors of the New England Center for Children, a school for autism and other disabilities, where he is the Vice-Chairman.
His publications include articles on teambuilding methods, continuing education, community building, readiness for change, and the relevance of hope for organizational renewal. He has presented workshops at professional meetings sponsored by organizations such as Training Magazine, Organizational Development Network, New England Human Resources Association, Learning Conference (UK and US), Association for Quality and Participation, and Pegasus/Systems Thinking.
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