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Leadership Without a Safety Net
Leadership Without a Safety Net
Spring 2008
Welcome
Welcome to Spring 2008

We have purposefully named this edition of NPQ “Leadership Without A Safety Net” to draw readers away from the emphasis on strategic career development and toward a focus on leading for impact and effectiveness. These two objectives often seem to diverge.

Ethics & Conflict
The Nonprofit Ethicist: Spring 2008

The Nonprofit Ethicist takes on "dirty" donors, hidden reserves, and marriages within the organization.

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Human Resources: Leadership Transistions
Powerful Nonprofit Leadership: The D Factor

Should your context drive your leadership style? NPQ’s editors think so.

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Human Resources: Leadership Transistions
Boards and Leadership Hires: How to Get It Right

How a board handles a leadership transition can have powerful and long-lasting effects. This article discusses how the board’s handling of this pivotal moment can result in long-lasting problems—and what your board can do to get it right. 

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Organizational Culture & Development
Gap or Pap: Generational Differences at Work

Is there is a real difference between what generations want and expect from a workplace?

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Accountability: Community Engagement
The Bright Future of Community Building

Traditional approaches toward community building may do more to push people away than engage them.

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Human Resources: Leadership Transistions
A Leader's Guide to Executive Coaching

Executive coaching provides leaders with tailored guidance on how to manage people and processes to improve organizational results while building the leader’s capacity for delivering those results over the long term. But the approach involves an investment of time and money.

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Human Resources: Leadership Transistions
The Nonprofit ED's First 100 Days

What should a new executive do—and not do—in the first 100 days?

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Philanthropy
Just Another Emperor? The Myths and Realities of Philanthrocapitalism

It’s hot, but is there anything new in the new philanthropy?

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Volunteering
Volunteer Management: Once More with Meaning

Volunteer management is typically all upside-down trying to fit volunteers to the organization rather than the organization to the volunteers.

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Accountability: Regulation
A Conversation with California Congressman Xavier Becerra

Daring to go where others fear to tread, a California congressman asks tough questions about whether nonprofits provide what taxpayers expect to get for their money.

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Satire
Eliminating Random Acts of Kindness by 2010

The National Bureau of Evaluation comes of age courtesy of brave advocates bucking the trend of fluff evaluations.

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