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

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

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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Relational Development 101: Gerald H. Twombly, Funding Your Vision. New Hope for Non-Profits

Posted in clarity, reseña, tagged , , , on August 31, 2007| Leave a Comment »

My friend ‘JT’ has written this brief book in order to present in narrative format the gist of his life-long work empowering non-profits through his firm DMA, Inc. If you are particularly skeptical of friends’ reviews (which you should be at least a little bit), you may wish to stop reading now. (more…)

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shaken, not stirring: Ken Blanchard, The One Minute Manager Balances Work and Life (One Minute Manager Library)

Posted in clarity, reseña, tagged , , , on August 31, 2007| Leave a Comment »

Ken Blanchard’s little One Minute Manager books define a genre.

Neither riveting reading nor high-stakes illumination, they simply get a message across effectively to the management reader who is not too concerned with aesthetics. Even the illustrations are garden-variety basic.

Yet these books have sold millions and they work. (more…)

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worth something like gold: Christian Management Report

Posted in clarity, reseña, tagged , , , on August 28, 2007| Leave a Comment »

If you’ve never stood and gaped at the periodicals section of a well-stocked Borders store or scanned an on-line list of periodicals, you may not be aware how astonishingly prolific is the publishing of niche magazines and journals. It is one of the too little celebrated marvels of the English-language editorial industry. (more…)

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How to Fly: A dozen ways to make your next business trip a success before you even get there

Posted in clarity, tagged , , on August 27, 2007| Leave a Comment »

This comes to you from 35,000 feet.

I’m not kidding. Some of my most productive work time happens on business trips and in airplane seats. I used to think of business travel as the lost time between origin and destination. No longer.

Now travel means working from another office, one that is almost as productive as my regular office. Plus, they give you pretzels. (more…)

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