Managing to Change the World: The Nonprofit Managers Guide to Getting Results

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Managing to Change the World is designed to teach new and experienced nonprofit managers the fundamental skills of effective management, including: Managing specific tasks and broader responsibilities; Setting clear goals and holding people accountable to them; creating a results-oriented culture; hiring, developing, and retaining a staff of superstars. Offers nonprofit managers a clear guide to the most effective management skills: Allow this favorite library to be seen by others Keep this favorite library private. Find a copy in the library Finding libraries that hold this item Electronic books Handbooks and manuals Additional Physical Format: Managing to change the world.

Document, Internet resource Document Type: Alison Green ; Jerry Hauser Find more information about: Alison Green Jerry Hauser. Why getting results should be every nonprofit manager's first priority A nonprofit manager's fundamental job is to get results, sustained over time, rather than boost morale or promote staff development. Publisher Synopsis The authors provide a wealth of examples of entrepreneurs who have found success by doing more with less Financial Times, 19th May "Jugaad Innovation is the most comprehensive book yet to appear on the subject The Economist, 24th May This inspirational book leaves the reader brimming with hope and excitement for the future.

User-contributed reviews Add a review and share your thoughts with other readers. Add a review and share your thoughts with other readers. Similar Items Related Subjects: User lists with this item 1 NonProfit 37 items by dbryden updated Makes suggestions, asks hard questions, reviews progress, serves as a resource, and intervenes if the work is off track. Owner Has overall responsibility for the success or failure of the project. Ensures that all the work gets done directly or with helpers and that others are involved appropriately.

There should be only one owner. Consulted Should be asked for input or needs to be bought in to the project. Helper Available to help do part of the work. May be the manager, though might also be the executive director, external partner, or board chair. Organizations often do the opposite of this: Most commonly we see this with promotions to managerial positions, since the skills needed to get results through others are often very different from those needed to get results on your own. And guiding takes time. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Angela Risner with appropriate and specific direction to the original content.

Sep 03, Clare rated it really liked it. I am a devotee of Alison Green's Ask A Manager website for its clear-sighted approach to the fraught world of emotions and social obligations and taking things way too personally. I picked up this book hoping for more of her profoundly reasonable worldview. I was not disappointed. This book is a fantastic overview of the fundamentals of management. In only a few short chapters, Green covers the basics of managing project work, managing other people, and managing yourself.

Very little of this info I am a devotee of Alison Green's Ask A Manager website for its clear-sighted approach to the fraught world of emotions and social obligations and taking things way too personally. Very little of this information is new or revolutionary. In fact, Green explicitly points out that management is actually pretty straight forward To this end, the book is primarily a helpful reminder of how to 1 be a good person, 2 stay organized, and 3 get shit done.

Information is delivered succinctly, without any of the fluff and gimmicks that plague other books on management, and chapters include samples of documents you can actually use on the job. This book should be required reading for anyone who finds themself in a position of leadership or management. That said, this is a book on management, which means that it's not the most engaging read. Green does a good job throwing in some humor now and again, but the majority of the book is a pretty dry presentation of abstract principles.

It's more valuable than it is enjoyable, and I would recommend reading this in conjunction with Green's Ask A Manager blog to get the weird, wild, and dramatic ways these principles or lack there of can play out among actual human beings. Growing up, management was a dirty word. My father complained about the morons who didn't know what it was like to do his job. So when I became one, I knew of the dangers I faced in becoming another moron who made outlandish demands.

Thankfully, nonprofit employees are typically more sympathetic and interested in the personal experience at work than the managers that my dad knew, concerned only with results regardless of how they were obtained. But this book makes it clear that caring about peopl Growing up, management was a dirty word. But this book makes it clear that caring about people isn't the best method as manager.

Sure, respect should permeate every action you take. But your goal is to create a team of people who use their skills to make the work happen. This book is full of tips to help with that. But it's also full of jargon. The English language is full of words - how hard can it be to find one that describes what you mean by "obtain desired deliverables? Take a moment, compose your thoughts, then talk. I guess that's at the core of this book too. Apr 30, Casey rated it really liked it Shelves: I found this book to be wonderfully written and a resource that I will keep on my shelf for years to come.

In this book you will find the below sections: There were also tools in each chapter i. I would recommend this book to anyone who is soon to be a manager, aspires to be a manager or is struggling to be a manager in the non-profit sector or any sector for that matter as it is full of best practices and at the very least will make you more self-aware. Feb 02, Melissa rated it liked it. This was a very practical, straightforward book for new managers on strategies on how to be a great manager--both for yourself, and for others. I was mostly reading this for tips on managing up, and there were some helpful steps to take that were listed at the very end of the book on this topic.

You could easily pick up this book and just read it chapter by chapter as it related to a question you have. The section on letting go of underperforming staff seemed particularly useful, as I imagine th This was a very practical, straightforward book for new managers on strategies on how to be a great manager--both for yourself, and for others.

The section on letting go of underperforming staff seemed particularly useful, as I imagine this is an incredibly hard task and the steps that they outline are very straightforward. This is not a great book for reading straight through, which is why I gave it a middling rating--it's rather dull when you read it start to finish, but seems like it would be incredibly useful if you just picked it up and read the sections that were relevant. There are also worksheets at the end of each chapter you could repurpose.

Jul 26, Emily rated it really liked it Shelves: I feel a bit bad that my scoring system is actually going to bring down the rating of something so useful. I like the author's blog and this is her outlook distilled into a handbook.

I'm usually skeptical of books about management because they each have their own acronyms and charts, nothing is compatible with what anyone else says, and the reader is tempted to overthink everything. But Green's worldview is so simple that this book doesn't read that way to me.

Perhaps her most easily overlooked I feel a bit bad that my scoring system is actually going to bring down the rating of something so useful. I wish this had been the text of my fairly useless library-school management class, but it was published after I graduated. One of the better books on management that I've read. The authors provided lots of specific suggestions - even to the point of providing scripts of conversations - that I found really helpful.

By using our website you agree to our use of cookies. Dispatched from the UK in 3 business days When will my order arrive? Home Contact Us Help Free delivery worldwide. Managing to Change the World: Description Why getting results should be every nonprofit manager's first priority A nonprofit manager's fundamental job is to get results, sustained over time, rather than boost morale or promote staff development. This is a shift from the tenor of many management books, particularly in the nonprofit world.

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To be effective, managers need to know how to get results. Inthis "management " manual, Alison Green and Jerry Hauseroffer step-by-step guidance on everything it takes to make thathappen, including how to: Effectively manage specific tasks and broaderresponsibilitiesSet clear goals and hold people accountable to themEstablish a results-oriented cultureHire, develop, and retain a staff of superstarsAddress performance problems and dismiss staffers who fallshortUse your own time wiselyExercise authority without being a tyrant or a wimpMaximize your relationship with your own boss Whether you're a new manager or an experienced one, Managing toChange the World will give you the tools you need to getresults.

It is truly aremarkable achievement. This book is a treasure, with soundguidance on how to achieve organizational excellence.