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Synopsis
Become a More Effective Manager-and Have More Fun Doing It
From the nonprofit world's most beloved columnist come easy lessons on how to become a better, and happier, manager. This book weaves together many of the most important ideas found in Thomas McLaughlin's hugely popular Nonprofit Times columns into a highly entertaining, motivating, and educational guide for nonprofit managers. McLaughlin's affable but always dead-on treatment of the realities of the nonprofit world provides managers with a bold new perspective on their industry and their roles in it. The book shows how essential it is to managers' well-being to keep in mind that they are more than the sum of their individual tasks, and it offers the support that so often eludes them.
Trade Secrets for Nonprofit Managers arms you with valuable tools and tips for professional and organizational development and shows you how to:
* Use the unspoken truths of nonprofit management
* Make the connection between vision and mission
* Challenge the subtly counterproductive niceties afforded nonprofits in order to get things done
Get informed, inspired-and entertained-with this one-of-a-kind guide to one of the fastest growing sectors in our economy.
Booknews
Weaves together important ideas found in McLaughlin's popular columns into a motivating and educational guide for nonprofit managers. McLaughlin's treatment of the realities of the nonprofit world provides managers with a bold new perspective on their industry and their roles in it, showing how to challenge the subtly counterproductive niceties afforded nonprofits in order to get things done. McLaughlin teaches at Brandeis University and the Boston University School of Social Work. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)