Private Sector Strategies for Social Sector Success: The Guide to Strategy and Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations

By Kevin P. Kearns

Book Overview

This practical guide offers a realistic approach to strategic management, while borrowing from the most helpful and relevant business ideas, allows the public or nonprofit organization to achieve success without compromising its unique mission or constituency. Executives, managers, and policymakers will find key principles for everyday application, including how to: identify trends that will most affect programs and services; assess the organization's core strengths and competencies; select strategies that advance the mission while building operational success; explore opportunities for collaborations with other organizations; and encourage a culture of strategic thought and action. Throughout this innovative guide, there are numerous illustrations and examples of how to apply the most appropriate technique to a particular need or goal. At last, public and nonprofit organizations have a real-world guide to finding lasting success.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0787941891
• ISBN13: 9780787941895
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

A best buy for strategic thinking

This is one of the most useful guides,if not the most useful, I've seen on how to think strategically about business ideas that are relevant to the nonprofit world. Kearns makes sensible distinctions between the two sectors. He presents in clear language and analsyis the for profit concepts and applications that are relevant to nonprofit organizations. It's a great resource!