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

<p><b>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.</b></p><p>If you read nothing else on nonprofits and the social sectors read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of <b>Harvard Business Review</b> articles and selected the most important ones to help you align your organization's mission and strategy deliver immediate impact and create lasting change.</p><p>This book will inspire you to: <ul><li>Choose the right problem to solve<li>Understand when the best practices of for-profits don't apply<li>Assemble an engaged and goal-driven board of directors<li>Make the most of for-profit initiatives and corporate partnerships<li>Drive demand scale up and be ready to change course<li>Learn from the success stories of the world's most respected nonprofit leaders</ul></p><p>This 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.</p>