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Table of Contents for Mission-Based Management (Second Edition)

1.Introduction

A look at three core philosophies and how to get the most from the book.

2. Where We Were, Where We Are, Where We're Going

A brief history of the not-for-profit world, a look at how your funders really see you, and a prediction of what kind of world you will work in.

3.What Works: The Characteristics of A Successful Not-for-Profit

The updated list of the nine things that your not-for-profit needs to be to continue to do its mission well in the twenty-first century.

4. The Mission is the Reason

How to get the most benefit from the reason that you exist. For many organizations, the mission is an underutilized resource. Don't be like them.

5. A Businesslike Board of Directors

What is an effective board, and what are the board and the staff's respective roles. Learn that, and how to reduce board liability.

6. Managing Your People

A new approach to management, that succeeds in today's high-speed, information driven-environment, including better communications, evaluations and rewards

7. The Wired Not-for-Profit

How to use technology to better manage, inform, market, empower, and compete in today's wireless environment.

8. Creating a Social Entrepreneur

How to develop a culture that takes prudent risks on behalf of its clientele. The criteria of the socially entrepreneurial organization. How to focus on your core competencies, and retain organizational flexibility.

9. Developing a Bias For Marketing

The best ways to bring your entire team into the marketing process, to discover who your markets really are and how to meet their needs and wants. The Characteristics of a market-driven, but mission-based organization.

10. Financial Empowerment

The eight key characteristics of a financially empowered not-for-profit, and how to get them in your organization.

11. A Vision to Create the Future

How to plan where you are going, and how to get the most from the planning process as well as from the plan itself. Includes several plan outlines.

12.The Controls That Set You Free

The way to get the most from nine different kinds of policies, including a tested method for their development and enforcement.

13. A National Agenda: Empowering our Not-for-Profits

The other side of the coin: what the funders need to do to empower your not-for-profit.

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