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practical training for non-profit execs and board members: Steven H. Berger, Understanding Nonprofit Financial Statements

Posted in clarity, reseña, tagged , , on September 17, 2007| Leave a Comment »

BoardSource (formerly the National Center for Nonprofit Boards) has distinguished itself as the premier source for high-quality, practical materials designed to equip nonprofit board members and officers to fulfill their considerable and evolving responsibilities. Though pricey, its products represent high value. This book is no exception. For the board member or executive without business training, seven well-illustrated chapters serve as both a primer and a reference work that will be consulted often and profitably. (more…)

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Better safe than sorry: Daniel L. Kurtz, Managing conflicts of interest. Practical guidelines for nonprofit boards

Posted in clarity, reseña, tagged , , , , , on September 7, 2007| Leave a Comment »

BoardSource (formerly The National Central for Nonprofit Boards) sets the gold standard for non-profit organizations with its diverse, expensive, and high-quality publications. BoardSource has figured out how to create a teaching and reference work simultaneously and then impress this model across the range of its printed material. The present book(let) comes with a CD that provides serviceable boilerplate that organizations can use to produce their own conflict of interest policies and disclosure documents. (more…)

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A pause to reflect: Brevard S. Childs, The Struggle To Understand Isaiah As Christian Scripture

Posted in clarity, reseña, tagged , , , on September 7, 2007| Leave a Comment »

Brevard Childs is a patient man. Few individuals could link such evident learning to a deep sympathy with the historical interpreters of the biblical book called Isaiah. The author’s empathy with the weighty labor of scholars who pour over an ancient work of such complexity is not only endearing. More importantly, it demonstrates that few of the book’s exegetes finished their work without achieving some mentionable merit, even when this is exceedingly modest by even Childs’ generous measure. (more…)

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Don’t try to run a nonprofit without guidance like this: Richard L. Moyers, The Nonprofit Chief Executive’s Ten Basic Responsibilities

Posted in clarity, reseña, tagged , , , , , on September 7, 2007| Leave a Comment »

You won’t find 48 pages’ worth of distilled wisdom like this for nonprofit executives and the board members the accompany them anywhere else. The only thing wrong with this gold-standard booklet is that its price will mean execs of some non-profits will not be able to afford a copy for every board member. This is so good it may be worth paying out of pocket to get into the hands of the board who you so badly need to think and act wisely.

Though directed mainly at chief executives, there is as much orientation for the board. I’ll make mine available to our leadership team as well, for the organizational theory and practical hints doesn’t get packaged any better than this.

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Pearls in a bucket: David Cottrell, Monday Morning Leadership. 8 Mentoring Sessions You Can’t Afford to Miss

Posted in clarity, reseña, tagged , on September 7, 2007| 2 Comments »

This extraordinary little book is a bona fide sleeper. A slightly hokey set of staged mentoring sessions allows David Cottrell to speak pithy and deeply practical counsel into the life and work of the harried executive who feels more victim than master of the tasks and crises that bombard him. (more…)

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When ‘broken’ really means ‘whole’: Gene Edwards, A Tale of three Kings. A Study in Brokenness

Posted in clarity, reseña, tagged , on September 7, 2007| Leave a Comment »

A mystical quality lingers about this tale of the biblical kings Saul, David, and Absalom, and so it grows even on readers who have been well vaccinated against insipid allegorizing. (more…)

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Courage: Patrick M. Lencioni, The Five Temptations of a CEO. A Leadership Fable

Posted in clarity, reseña on September 7, 2007| Leave a Comment »

Full product information for this item, together with my review, my ranking of the product, and any reader comments, can be found at http://www.amazon.com.

If the proof is in the pudding, the value of this recipe is that I have faced three concrete ‘CEO moments’ since finishing Lencioni’s fable two days ago that have proven to be the turf for implementation of his well-told counsel to CEOs who live or die by clarity and courage. (more…)

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keep it simple: Patrick M. Lencioni, The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive. A Leadership Fable

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Patrick Lencioni writes stories. Lots of them.

He calls them `fables’. `Leadership fables’, to be precise. It’s a growing genre in business publications, perhaps a sign that such writers and their editors and marketers have caught on to the power of narrative to make a point that often comes across as dry and abstract when it’s treated, well, dryly and abstractly. (more…)

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no other option: fix the problem: Patrick M. Lencioni, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, A Leadership Fable

Posted in clarity, reseña, tagged , , , on September 7, 2007| Leave a Comment »

Following his success with The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive and the The Five Temptations of a CEO, management consultant Pat Lencioni turns his observant eye to the team and its dynamic interrelationship. The results are outstanding. (more…)

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productive order: David Allen, Getting Things Done. The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

Posted in clarity, reseña on September 5, 2007| Leave a Comment »

Full product information for this item, together with my review, my ranking of the product, and any reader comments, can be found at http://www.amazon.com.

As a guy with a high-demand life and job, I have a hundred reasons to need a book with a title like this. But as a natural skeptic regarding techniques—especially one that promises `stress-free productivity’—I have a million reasons not to read it. You see, I think wisdom and courage have a lot more to do with stewarding the high demands and attractive opportunities that come our way than do `how to’s’ and `tips’. (more…)

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