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Informationen zum Autor ROBERT M. SHEEHAN JR. is the Academic Director of the Executive MBA program at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he is also a Lecturer in the Department of Management and Organization. He is also Principal of Sheehan Consulting, which provides consulting services in strategy development and implementation, leadership and teamwork development, board development, and succession planning for businesses, nonprofits, and government entities. Rob has more than thirty years of executive management experience, including eighteen years as the CEO of two different national nonprofits. His PhD research focused on nonprofit organizational excellence and he is a published researcher on nonprofit performance. He is an active member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals, having served as President of both the Central Ohio and East Central Illinois chapters. He attained the association's CFRE (Certified Fund Raising Executive) designation in 1986. Klappentext MISSION IMPACT BREAKTHROUGH STRATEGIES FOR NONPROFITS It's time to jump-start your nonprofit's vision. Get your team working together more creatively and strategically. Create strategies that will lead it to breakthrough performance in mission impact. Beginning with a discussion of exactly what strategy is, Mission Impact will empower you to design, develop, and implement breakthrough strategies that increase your nonprofit's mission impact and improve the quality of life for others--after all, that's why you're in "business," isn't it? With an accompanying Web site supplying practical tools, this complete guide for designing and carrying out a strategy development process for your nonprofit organization will help you understand how to apply the concepts presented, with a fresh look at: Key steps a strategy development group goes through in creating a strategy How to create an aspirational vision that will guide your organization to breakthrough performance Five-year strategic stretch goals designed to catapult your organization toward its vision The issues senior management should consider as it implements strategy How to design a process to fit the needs of your organization The factors your organization should consider as it designs a strategy development process Drawing from the author's more than thirty years of experience in the nonprofit world as a practitioner, academic, volunteer, and consultant, Mission Impact fuels strategic change, offering expert insight into how the process of strategy development will guide your nonprofit toward its desired future. Zusammenfassung Mission Impact explains how nonprofit leaders can create strategies for their organizations that will lead them to breakthrough performance. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction xiii Acknowledgments xxi About the Author xxv Chapter 1 What Is Nonprofit Strategy? 1 What Is Strategy? 1 Strategy Guides Performance 7 Nonprofit Strategy 13 Hypothetical Example Organizations 15 Chapter 2 Designing the Strategy Development Process 19 Are You Ready? 19 Stakeholder Identification and Involvement 26 Length and Scope 30 The Strategy Development Group 32 Application to Hypothetical Organizations 35 Chapter 3 Your Mission Impact 49 The Mission Accomplishment Approach 49 The Mission Statement 51 Mission Accomplishment Measures 54 Your Mission Gap 64 Application to Hypothetical Organizations 66 Chapter 4 Vision for Your Organization 77 What Is Vision? 77 Aspirational Visions 78 Role of Aspirational Visions 86 Real-World Applications of Aspirational Visions 92 Application to Hypothetical Organizations 97...
