HBR's 10 Must Reads on Nonprofits and the Social Sectors (featuring What Business Can Learn from Nonprofits by Peter F. Drucker)

Nonprofits and the social sectors are taking on an increasing share of the world's most vital work. Make sure your organization is ready for the challenge.If you read nothing else on nonprofits and the social sectors read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you align your organization's mission and strategy deliver immediate impact and create lasting change.This book will inspire you to:Choose the right problem to solveUnderstand when the best practices of for-profits don't applyAssemble an engaged and goal-driven board of directorsMake the most of for-profit initiatives and corporate partnershipsDrive demand scale up and be ready to change courseLearn from the success stories of the world's most respected nonprofit leadersThis collection of articles includes Lofty Missions Down-to-Earth Plans by V. Kasturi Rangan; What Business Can Learn from Nonprofits by Peter F. Drucker; Life's Work: An Interview with Desmond Tutu; Are You Solving the Right Problem? by Dwayne Spradlin; Life's Work: An Interview with George Mitchell; Enterprising Nonprofits by J. Gregory Dees; Life's Work: An Interview with Wynton Marsalis; State Street's CEO on Creating Employment for At-Risk Youths by Joseph Hooley; Life's Work: An Interview with Salman Khan; Do Better at Doing Good by V. Kasturi Rangan Sohel Karim and Sheryl K. Sandberg; AEI's President on Measuring the Impact of Ideas by Arthur C. Brooks; Life's Work: An Interview with Michelle Bachelet; The New Work of the Nonprofit Board by Barbara E. Taylor Richard P. Chait and Thomas P. Holland; Life's Work: An Interview with Bill T. Jones; Reaching the World's Poorest Consumers by Muhammad Yunus Frederic Dalsace David Menasce and Benedicte Faivre-Tavignot; Life's Work: An Interview with Muhammad Yunus; and Audacious Philanthropy: Lessons from 15 World-Changing Initiatives by Susan Wolf Ditkoff and Abe Grindle.