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Leadership in Nonprofit Organizations
Lessons From the Third Sector

First Edition
  • Barry Dym - Institute for Nonprofit Management and Leadership
  • Harry Hutson - WorkWise Research and Consulting


January 2005 | 248 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
Leadership in Nonprofit Organizations is about exemplary leadership as found in both corporate and nonprofit organizations. The authors take a fresh approach to the study of leadership: they perform research in nonprofit organizations 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. Moving from nonprofit to for-profit in this way reverses the flow of ideas as represented in the mainstream literature of leadership. The authors' journey leads through case studies of remarkable leaders succeeding in complex situations.

The book contains:

- A critical review of literature on leadership which encourages diversity in leadership models and approaches.

- Case studies of nonprofit leadership which affirm public-minded, mission-driven leaders and acknowledge their contributions.

- Chapters on leadership constructs such as fit, dynamics, readiness and flow which provide useful insights and methods to enable success.

- The overarching concept of alignment which 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.

 
Chapter 1: Introduction
 
Chapter 2: Casa Myrna Vazquez
 
Chapter 3: Theoretical Alignment
 
Chapter 4: The Cultural Narrative of Leadership
 
Chapter 5: Goodness of Fit
 
Chapter 6: The Alignment Map
 
Chapter 7: Community Therapeutic Day School: A Beautifully Aligned Organization
 
Chapter 8: The Dynamics and Cycles of Alignment
 
Chapter 9: The DNA of Leadership
 
Chapter 10: The Practice of Alignment
 
Chapter 11: Utilizing States of Organizational Readiness to Achieve Alignment
 
Chapter 12: The Alignment Exercise
 
Chapter 13: Inner Alignment and the Experience of "Flow" in Leadership

"They develop the concept of "good fit" between the leader and complex circumstances in which she or he must lead; they explain how leaders can increase the readiness for change in their organizations."

Naim Kapucu

Very clearly written

Ms Rita Kinsella
Business School, University of East London
January 4, 2019

I found this book useful as a supplementary text for my MBA students in their leadership module. It shows a good understanding of the workings in the third sector.

Dr Chuma Osuchukwu
Postgraduate Faculty, London School of Business and Management
November 24, 2012

Good all round book

Mrs Karen Burton
Health , Neath Port Talbot College
January 12, 2012

Barry Michael Dym

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... More About Author

Harry Hutson

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... More About Author

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