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 worlds 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. Weve combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you align your organizations 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 dont 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 worlds 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; Lifes Work: An Interview with Desmond Tutu; Are You Solving the Right Problem? by Dwayne Spradlin; Lifes Work: An Interview with George Mitchell; Enterprising Nonprofits by J. Gregory Dees; Lifes Work: An Interview with Wynton Marsalis; State Streets CEO on Creating Employment for At-Risk Youths by Joseph Hooley; Lifes Work: An Interview with Salman Khan; Do Better at Doing Good by V. Kasturi Rangan Sohel Karim and Sheryl K. Sandberg; AEIs President on Measuring the Impact of Ideas by Arthur C. Brooks; Lifes Work: An Interview with Michelle Bachelet; The New Work of the Nonprofit Board by Barbara E. Taylor Richard P. Chait and Thomas P. Holland; Lifes Work: An Interview with Bill T. Jones; Reaching the Worlds Poorest Consumers by Muhammad Yunus Frederic Dalsace David Menasce and Benedicte Faivre-Tavignot; Lifes Work: An Interview with Muhammad Yunus; and Audacious Philanthropy: Lessons from 15 World-Changing Initiatives by Susan Wolf Ditkoff and Abe Grindle.