Exposing the elephants : creating exceptional nonprofits, Pamela J. Wilcox

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Exposing the elephants : creating exceptional nonprofits, Pamela J. Wilcox

Title remainder

creating exceptional nonprofits

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Pamela J. Wilcox

Instantiates

• Exposing the elephants : creating exceptional nonprofits

Publication

• Hoboken, N.J., John Wiley & Sons, 2006

Copyright

• ©2006

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

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• nc

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rdacarrier

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• txt

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Contents

• Wide Reach of Nonprofits
• 158
• Reality
• 159
• Consequences
• 162
• Cost of Opportunity Lost
• 163
• Part III
• Elephant Solutions: Good Behavior, Exceptional Results
• 167
• 4
• A New Mindset
• 167
• Coaxing Elephants into the Open
• 168
• Five Elephant Solutions
• 169
• Chapter 8
• Mission Impossible Solution: Create One Mission System
• 171
• Taming the Mission Impossible Elephant
• Myths That Surround Nonprofits
• 171
• Elephant Solution One: Create One Mission System
• 172
• Making the Changes Stick
• 193
• Chapter 9
• Earth to Board Solution: A Shared Reality
• 203
• Taming the Earth to Board Elephant
• 203
• 7
• Elephant Solution Two: Seek a Shared Reality
• 204
• Making the Changes Stick
• 218
• Chapter 10
• Board Fiddles, Rome Burns Solution: Develop Policy and Strategy at Every Level
• 227
• Taming the Board Fiddles, Rome Burns Elephant
• 227
• Elephant Solution Three: Develop Policy and Strategy at All Levels
• Higher Expectations Equal Better Nonprofits
• 228
• Making the Changes Stick
• 246
• Chapter 11
• Smile, Not Skill Solution: Demand Performance
• 253
• Taming the Smile, Not Skill Elephant
• 253
• Elephant Solution Four: Demand Performance
• 254
• 11
• CEOs and Performance
• 269
• Making the Changes Stick
• 278
• Chapter 12
• Read My Lips Solution: Reward Results, Not Rhetoric
• 283
• Taming the Read My Lips Elephant
• 283
• Elephant Solution Five: Reward Results, Not Rhetoric
• Chapter 2
• 284
• Making the Changes Stick
• 292
• Conclusion: Exceptional Nonprofits
• 297
• Transforming Unruly Pachyderms into Well-Behaved Guests
• 297
• Exceptional Nonprofits Meet Future Challenges
• 300
• Exceptional Nonprofits and the Future
• Nonprofit Dilemma
• 303
• 15
• Rating Nonprofit Performance
• Live Lessons and At the Salt Mines
• 15
• "If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It."
• 17
• Part II
• Problem Elephants: Bad Behavior, Bad Results
• 21
• Uninvited Guests: The Elephants of the Nonprofit Sector
• 21
• Chapter 3
• Mission Impossible Elephant
• xvii
• 25
• Where's Mission?
• 25
• I'm the Expert Archetype
• 26
• Two Nonprofit Components
• 28
• Constraints to the Volunteer Role
• 29
• Roles and Relationships Defined
• Part I
• 31
• I'm the Expert Takes Over
• 36
• A Live Lesson: "Two Does Not Equal One"
• 38
• A Primer of Lessons from "Two Does Not Equal One"
• 47
• Where's the Mission?
• 55
• Chapter 4
• Promise versus Reality
• Earth to Board Elephant
• 61
• A Reality Check
• 61
• Siren Call of "Members"
• 62
• Connect and Articulate
• 62
• Protect and Supervise
• 65
• 1
• Board's Worst Enemy
• 69
• A Live Lesson: "Intentional Grounding Is Not a Foul"
• 71
• Economic Cost of the Earth to Board Elephant
• 82
• Chapter 5
• Board Fiddles, Rome Burns Elephant
• 87
• Whose Job Is It?
• Chapter 1
• 87
• Policy and Strategy Uncensored
• 88
• Board-Level Policy and Strategy
• 93
• A Live Lesson: "Behind CEO Mismanagement Lurks Board Failure"
• 100
• Chapter 6
• Smile, Not Skill Elephant
• 117
• Nonprofits: A Closer Look
• Then There Were None: The Disappearing CEO
• 117
• A Brief Introduction: Four Elephants and a Code
• 118
• Board and CEO
• 120
• CEO and Staff
• 127
• A Live Lesson: "If the CEO Fails, Blame the Staff"
• 133
• 3
• Chapter 7
• Read My Lips Elephant
• 147
• Hubris and Nonprofits
• 147
• Outsized Rhetoric: Up Close and Personal
• 148
• Why Are Nonprofits Addicted to Outsized Rhetoric?
• 151
• Live Lesson: "Great Is Just a State of Mind"

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ocm64688624

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26 cm

Extent

xviii, 318 pages

Isbn

9780471792215

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2006008031

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unmediated

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rdamedia

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• n

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658.048 W643 ; P ; XX-N ; C1006BT1 (BN).

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9780471792215

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• (Sirsi) o64688624
• (Sirsi) o64688624