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Nonprofits

The Leadership Deficit: Research Methodology

Research methodology for the article "The Leadership Deficit"

By Thomas J. Tierney | Summer 2006
 
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Nonprofits

The Leadership Deficit

One of the biggest challenges facing nonprofits today is their dearth of strong leaders – a problem that’s only going to get worse as the sector expands and baby boom executives retire. Over the next decade nonprofits will need to find some 640,000 new executives, nearly two and a half times the number currently employed. To meet the growing demand for talent, the author offers creative ways of finding and recruiting new leaders from a wide range of groups, including business, the military, and the growing pool of retirees.

By Thomas J. Tierney | 2 | Summer 2006
 
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Nonprofits

What Business Execs Don’t Know—but Should—About Nonprofits

Business leaders play vital roles in the nonprofit sector – as board members, donors, partners, and even executives. Yet all too often they underestimate the unique challenges of managing nonprofit organizations. In this article, 11 executives who have played leadership roles in both for-profits and nonprofits reveal the critical differences between the two, and suggest ways that business and nonprofit leaders can use this information to create a more effective social sector.

By Les Silverman & Lynn Taliento | 19 | Summer 2006
 

Nonprofits

Pundits Weigh In

"The Leadership Deficit" sidebar

By various authors | Summer 2006
 

Nonprofits

Crossing Over

What Business Execs Don’t Know -- but Should -- About Nonprofits

By various authors | Summer 2006
 

Nonprofits

The Enterprising Type

How the personalities of entrepreneurs and managers differ.

By Alana Conner Snibbe | Summer 2006
 

Philanthropy

Hardwired to Help

Both humans and chimpanzees naturally lend a hand.

By Alana Conner Snibbe | Summer 2006
 
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Social Innovations

Creating Social Change: 10 Innovative Technologies

Social entrepreneurs are inventing new technologies to solve the world’s problems – disease, malnutrition, pollution, and illiteracy – to name just a few. But it takes more than a fancy new gadget to make life better. That’s why the organizations profiled here are working with businesses, NGOs, and governments to get their inventions into the hands of those who need them most.

By John Voelcker | 3 | Summer 2006
 

Nonprofits

15 minutes with Jonathan Reckford

Habitat for Humanity’s new CEO picks up the hammer.

By SSIR Editors | 1 | Summer 2006
 

Social Innovations

All That Jazz

Managing innovation is more like leading a jazz band than conducting an orchestra.

By Alana Conner Snibbe | Summer 2006