The 5 Truths for Transformational Leaders: How Nonprofit Organizations Thrive, Grow, and Make a Profound Difference - Hardcover

by Ed Mishrell (Author)

Use mission-driven leadership to create dramatic growth at your nonprofit

In The Five Truths for Transformational Leaders: How Nonprofit Organizations Thrive, Grow, and Make a Profound Difference, former Chief Strategy Officer for the Boys and Girls Clubs of America, Ed Mishrell, delivers an insightful and practical discussion of how to achieve extraordinary results when leading nonprofit organizations. The author explains how to use your organization's mission as your north star and build an exciting, growing, and thriving nonprofit.

You'll benefit from the book's step-by-step guidance and advice as it outlines the five key principles of mission-driven leadership. You'll also discover incisive quotes and observations from board members and staff leaders at fast-growing nonprofit organizations you can apply to your own nonprofit for immediate results.

The book also offers:

• Strategies for eliminating or repairing ineffective systems and practices that are holding your organization back
• Techniques for centering your nonprofit's mission in everything it does
• Ways to build - and execute - a mission-driven strategy

A start-to-finish blueprint for exceptional, growth-oriented nonprofit leadership, The Five Truths for Transformational Leaders will revolutionize the work of every nonprofit board member, manager, and leader who reads it.

Front Jacket

Nonprofit organizations are uniquely positioned to benefit from exceptional leadership. Their focus on mission over profit and the dedication of the teams that power them can be harnessed by people who lean hard on their innate strengths and relentlessly strive to grow and evolve.

In The Five Truths for Transformational Leaders: How Nonprofit Organizations Thrive, Grow, and Make a Profound Difference, retired Chief Strategy Officer at the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, Ed Mishrell, delivers a thoroughly insightful and hands-on look at how to achieve extraordinary results at nonprofit organizations. In the book, you'll discover how mission-focused leadership models are ideally suited to the critical work done by nonprofits around the world and how to implement one in your own organization, regardless of its size.

Learn what sets a thriving, growing nonprofit apart from those that struggle to survive as you explore the author's five non-negotiable conditions for sustained, transformational growth. From being fanatical about your organization's mission to the identification and repair of ineffective systems and practices, The Five Truths for Transformational Leaders offers step-by-step guidance and advice for the professionals and board members leading contemporary nonprofits. The book's indispensable advice is supported by quotes and observations from board members and staff leaders at nonprofit organizations that have more than doubled their operating revenues within a period of five years or less.

An essential and rigorous roadmap to dramatic nonprofit growth and success, The Five Truths for Transformational Leaders will earn a place in the libraries of board members, philanthropists, nonprofit managers and staff, and anyone else with an interest in effective, impactful leadership that focuses on mission above all else.

Back Jacket

Build a mission-driven leadership environment to grow your nonprofit

The Five Truths for Transformational Leaders: How Nonprofit Organizations, Thrive, Grow, and Make a Profound Difference is a practical and incisive take on how to achieve spectacular results at nonprofit organizations. Former Chief Strategy Officer at the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, Ed Mishrell, draws on his decades of leadership and operational experience to present hands-on strategies for mission-focused leadership in nonprofits of all sizes.

In the book, you'll find five essential conditions for sustained, transformational growth at nonprofit organizations. From a relentless focus on mission to the repair of ineffective systems and practices, the execution of a mission-driven strategy, and continued personal growth, the author explains how to meet--and exceed--the unique leadership requirements of nonprofits.

A must-read blueprint to exceptional nonprofit growth and success, The Five Truths for Transformational Leaders will find a prominent place on the bookshelves of board members, nonprofit managers and staff leaders, philanthropists, donors, and anyone else interested in delivering effective leadership in a mission-oriented environment.