Seven Turning Points: Leading Through Pivotal Transitions in Organizational Life
Автор:Susan Gross Год: 2009 Издание: [не указанo] Страниц: 120 ISBN: 0940069733 As nonprofit organizations mature and grow, their staffs and programs expand, their operations and dynamics become more complex, and the climate they operate in changes and presents new challenges. The leadership, structure, management, and operating norms that worked at one point no longer work. In fact, the management solutions for one phase often turn into the management problems of another. To remain strong and effective, nonprofit organizations cannot remain static. If they are to move to a new level of effectiveness, they must periodically adjust their leadership, management, structure, governance, and operating style to fit their changed circumstances. Author Susan Gross calls these adjustments "turning points." When an organizational structure that once worked begins to exhibit a host of problems, author Susan Gross says these tensions are the inevitable results of change and growth. These problems should not be addressed one by one as separate issues. Rather, these issues...