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Leadership 101: What Every Leader Needs to Know by John C. Maxwell
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First, Break All the Rules: What the World'... by Marcus Buckingham
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Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done by Larry Bossidy
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Winning with People: Discover the People Princi... by John C. Maxwell
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Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary C... by Jim Collins
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The One Minute Manager by Kenneth H. Blanchard
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Principle Centered Leadership by Stephen R. Covey
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The 21 Most Powerful Minutes in a Leader's... by John C. Maxwell
What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How... by Marshall Goldsmith
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The SPEED of Trust: The One Thing That Changes... by Stephen M.R. Covey
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Leadership and Self Deception: Getting Out of t... by Arbinger Institute
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Lincoln on Leadership: Executive Strategies for... by Donald T. Phillips
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Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without G... by Roger Fisher
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Primal Leadership: Learning to Lead with Emotio... by Daniel Goleman
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StrengthsFinder 2.0: A New and Upgraded Edition... by Tom Rath
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The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
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Today Matters: 12 Daily Practices to Guarantee... by John C. Maxwell
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QBQ! The Question Behind the Question: Practici... by John G. Miller
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Ethics 101: What Every Leader Needs To Know (10... by John C. Maxwell
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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
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The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason
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The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow T... by John C. Maxwell
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Go Put Your Strengths to Work: 6 Powerful Steps... by Marcus Buckingham
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Becoming a Person of Influence: How to Positive... by John C. Maxwell
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Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for... by Michael Hammer
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(2) $9.99Annie E. Casey Foundation Leadership Development Resources
Resident Leadership and Facilitation Work Book
The Resident Leadership and Facilitation Training is designed to help participants gain an understanding of the skills needed to lead successful meetings that result in decisions about actions that will achieve desired results. more >>
Building Leaderful Organizations: Succession Planning for Nonprofits
The development of leadership skills throughout an organization is a key strategy for succession planning and strengthening capacity. This publication presents emergency succession planning tools (an important “risk management” practice). It offers executive directors concrete guidance for thinking about when and how to leave an organization. It also includes suggestions for boards in being proactive in assuring the sustainability of the organizations for which they are responsible. more >>
Ready to Lead? Next Generation Leaders Speak Out
A skilled, committed, and diverse pool of next generation leaders would like to be nonprofit executives in the future, but concerns about insufficient work-life balance and lack of earning potential may keep them from it. This national survey of 6,000 emerging nonprofit leaders, produced by the Meyer Foundation in partnership with the Annie E. Casey Foundation and others, presents challenges and recommendations for training and supporting future nonprofit executives. more >>
Next Shift: Beyond the Nonprofit Leadership Crisis
This is the second monograph in a series on generational shifts in the non-profit sector. In this monograph, the authors counter a variety of proposed interventions from infrastructure organizations and present an alternate to the current crisis framework. The authors posit that by applying a crisis framework to the transitional trends in the non-profit sector, leadership ignores the rich opportunities that lay ahead. The authors make suggestions as to how the non-profit sector can embrace this time of change and have positive outcomes. more >>
The Impact of Leadership Development on Early Childhood Education: A Preliminary Review of the Annie E. Casey Foundation's Leadership in Action Program
This report was prepared for the Casey Foundation by the Research Center for Leadership Action at New York University's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. It was designed to capture stories about Casey's Baltimore and Maryland Leadership in Action Programs that illustrate what leaders have done to contribute to helping children enter school ready to learn. more >>
Leadership in Action Program
Casey’s Leadership in Action Program delivers hands-on training for people from diverse fields and backgrounds who are working hard to improve results for vulnerable children and families. The program—used for agency managers, educators, business people, nonprofit leaders, public officials, parents, and child advocates—works with local groups to focus on improving a specific result, like reducing the number of low birth-weight babies or increasing the number of children ready for kindergarten. This brochure explains how the program works and how to tell if a community is ready to participate. more >>
Leadership in Action Program Brochure
Casey’s Leadership in Action Program delivers hands-on training for people from diverse fields and backgrounds who are working hard to improve results for vulnerable children and families. The program—used for agency managers, educators, business people, nonprofit leaders, public officials, parents, and child advocates—works with local groups to focus on improving a specific result, like reducing the number of low birth-weight babies or increasing the number of children ready for kindergarten. This brochure explains how the program works and how to tell if a community is ready to participate. more >>
Stepping Up, Staying Engaged: Succession Planning and Executive Transition Management for Nonprofit Boards of Directors
This publication focuses particularly on board leaders. It provides a set of practical perspectives, hands-on tools, brief case studies, and useful resources to help board chairs, officers, and members take a proactive approach to preparing their organizations for a transition. more >>
Leadership Matters: The Role of Latino/a Religious Leadership in Social Ministry
This report’s applied research information about Latino/a congregations and their leaders offers an informed portrait of the needs, aspirations, and challenges facing Latino/a ministers of faith-based organizations. The authors of this report looked at the role of religious leaders who act as catalysts for change by mobilizing and building grassroots organizations. more >>
What’s Next? Baby Boom-Age Leaders in Social Change Nonprofits
This paper reports on how twenty-seven social change nonprofit leaders in the baby boom generation view their work and the contributions they have made during the past thirty years. more >>
Founder Transitions: Creating Good Endings and New Beginnings: A Guide for Executive Directors and Boards
This guide examines the unique challenges presented by transitions involving founders or long-term executives. It provides clear advice for executives and their boards in confronting the complex issues these transitions present. more >>
Up Next: Generation Change and the Leadership of Nonprofit Organizations
Research indicates that leadership transitions from the Baby Boom generation to Generations X and Y will become more common within the nonprofit sector. This report delivers a series of recommendations on how a variety of stakeholders can improve the hand-off from this generation of leaders to the next. more >>
Interim Executive Directors: The Power in the Middle
This paper explores the benefits and basics of using an interim executive director during a leadership transition. It also highlights some considerations that organizations should take into account when deciding whether or not to use an interim executive director. more >>
Change Ahead: (Summary) Nonprofit Executive Leadership, and Transitions Survey
Effective leaders and leadership are critical to the health and wellbeing of nonprofit organization and the sector as a whole. This summary of a survey of 2,200 executive directors of nonprofit organizations from across the country highlights the implications that the growing number of leadership transitions may have for the nonprofit sector. The document presents a strong set of baseline numbers with which to measure trends in leadership transitions over the coming decades. more >>
Change Ahead, Nonprofit Executive Leadership and Transitions Survey 2004
Effective leaders and leadership are critical to the health and wellbeing of nonprofit organization and the sector as a whole. This report of a recent survey of 2,200 executive directors of nonprofit organizations from across the country highlights the potentially distributive implications that the growing number of leadership transitions may have for the nonprofit sector and creates a strong set of baseline numbers with which to measure trends in leadership transitions over the coming decades. more >>
