Strategic Tools for Social Entrepreneurs Enhancing the Performance of Your Enterprising Nonprofit

Name: Strategic Tools for Social Entrepreneurs Enhancing the Performance of Your Enterprising Nonprofit
Price: 3.82 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780471150688

ISBN-10: 0471150681

ISBN-13: 9780471150688

Edition: 2nd 2002 (Revised)

Authors: J. Gregory Dees, Jed Emerson, Peter Economy

List price: $55.00

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Buy new: $33.33

Marketplace

5 new & used from $3.82

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

A complete set of tools for applying entrepreneurial strategies and techniques to your nonprofitAs a follow–up to their book Enterprising Nonprofits, the authors of Strategic Tools for Social Entrepreneurs provide a full set of practical tools for putting the lessons of business entrepreneurship to work in your nonprofit. The book offers hands–on guidance that helps social sector leaders hone their entrepreneurial skills and carry out their social missions more effectively than ever before. This practical and easy–to–use book is filled with examples, exercises, checklists, and action steps that bring the concepts, frameworks, and tools to life. Detailed explanations of all the tools and…

Book details

List price: $55.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/20/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 360
Size: 7.35" wide x 10.28" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 1.848
Language: English

J. GREGORY DEES is the Miriam and Peter Haas Centennial Professor in Public Service at Stanford University and codirector of the Center for Social Innovation at Stanford's Graduate School of Business. He also serves as an entrepreneur-in-residence at the Kauffman Foundation's Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership. JED EMERSON is president of the Roberts Enterprise Development Fund and the Bloomberg Senior Research Fellow at Harvard Business School. PETER ECONOMY is the bestselling business author of Managing for Dummies, Consulting for Dummies, and At the Helm: Business Lessons for Navigating Rough Waters.

Peter Economy is co-author of "At the Helm: Business Lessons for Navigating Rough Waters" & the best-selling book "Managing for Dummies".



Foreword


Preface


Acknowledgements


About the Authors


Editor's Introduction



Creating Value and Assessing Performance



Developing a Strategic Service Vision



The Strategic Service Vision


The Value Equation


Incorporating Multiple Constituencies in a Strategic Service Vision


Satisfying Constituencies with Conflicting Needs


Implications for Social Entrepreneurs


Summary



Developing an Entrepreneurial Competitive Strategy



Understanding Your Competitive Environment


Assessing Your Strengths and Weaknesses


Selecting a Competitive Strategy


Summary



Cooperative Strategy: Building Networks, Partnerships, and Alliances



Creating a Cooperative Strategy


Recruiting Willing and Able Partners


Negotiating


Managing the Partnership


Summary



Leading, Retaining, and Rewarding People Entrepreneurially



Leading a Social Enterprise


Attracting and Keeping Great People


Motivating Your Team


Summary



Managing Your Board Entrepreneurially



Understanding the Role of the Board


Life Cycle of the Board


Board Functions


Creating an Entrepreneurial Environment


Alternative Governance Structures


Board Recruitment


Orientation and Development


Time for a Change--Removing Members of the Board


Summary



Treating Your Donors As Investors



The New World of Donor-Investors


Moving from Old Sources of Value to New Ones


Identifying Increased Avenues for Donor-Investor/Social Enterprise Partnerships


Getting Ready for the Entrepreneurial Donor's Involvement


Challenges in Maintaining Donor Investment: Developing New Stewardship


Ending "Charity": Implications for Creating Value for Donors


Summary



Working with Community



Defining Community


Why Does Community Matter to Social Entrepreneurs?


Key Steps for Cultivating and Continuing Community Connections


Summary



Performance Information That Really Performs



Defining Value in the Nonprofit Marketplace


Developing a Performance Information System


Translating Information into Action


Summary



Growing and Exploring New Directions



Developing Viable Earned Income Strategies



What Is an Earned Income Strategy?


Exploring the Three Different Earned Income Paths


Five Steps for Developing a Viable Earned Income Strategy


Summary



The Question of Scale: Finding an Appropriate Strategy for Building on Your Success



The Seductive Appeal of Going to Scale


Why Scaling Up Is Not for Everyone


"Scaling Deep" Rather Than Scaling Up


Different Pathways for Spreading the Benefits of Success


Guidelines for Deciding Whether and How to Scale Up


Summary



Managing Organizational Change



What Social Entrepreneurs Should Know about Organizational Change


How to Prepare to Lead Organizational Change


What Happens When Organizations Experience Change?


Your Role as the Leader of Organizational Change


Summary



Growing with an Entrepreneurial Mind-Set



Developing an Entrepreneurial Mind-Set


Creating an Entrepreneurial Environment


The Entrepreneurial Leader


The Impact of Growth


Values and Support


Summary


Appendix


Index