"Best practices for innovation that build a mission-effective nonprofit. The book is practical, not theoretical. It teaches nonprofit effectiveness step by step with simple, useful points for nonprofit leaders and funders. It also provides examples of common pitfalls, including metrics that incentivize the bad practices and boilerplate vague strategies. The book will synthesize and translate the best ideas and thinkers from the for-profit sector (Deming, Drucker, Covey, Senge, Porter), economics (local knowledge, incentives ...
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"Best practices for innovation that build a mission-effective nonprofit. The book is practical, not theoretical. It teaches nonprofit effectiveness step by step with simple, useful points for nonprofit leaders and funders. It also provides examples of common pitfalls, including metrics that incentivize the bad practices and boilerplate vague strategies. The book will synthesize and translate the best ideas and thinkers from the for-profit sector (Deming, Drucker, Covey, Senge, Porter), economics (local knowledge, incentives, markets, trade-offs, cost-benefit analysis, decision rights), and workplace culture (bottom-up empowerment, fulfillment, entrepreneurialism). Brief anecdotal examples and stories from diverse nonprofits will be sprinkled in"--
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