Executive Directors Guide:
The Guide for Successful Nonprofit Management

Better Leaders, Better Nonprofits, a Better World

Written by Deborah Linnell, Zora Radosevich and Jonathan Spack, the Executive Directors Guide: The Guide for Successful Nonprofit Management is loaded with practical, real world information to help executive directors create and sustain healthy, effective organizations. The guide also includes examples and advice on collaboratiing to build a robust non-profit sector.

The how-to publication is inspired by the Executive Directors Guide published by the United Way of Massachusetts Bay over 20 years ago. It retains the original’s emphasis on leading with a view to maximizing stakeholder participation in vision creation, strategy development, decision making and implementation. 

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Read more and view the sample chapter on non-profit executive Leadership, which discusses:

• The concept of leadership
• Various leadership competencies, styles and models
• Participatory, partnership-based leadership
• The role of self-reflection in effective leaders
• Maintaining a work-life balance that helps you lead successfully