Managing at the Leading Edge: New Challenges in Managing Nonprofit Organizations

by Mike Hudson

In Managing at the Leading Edge, United Kingdom’s nonprofit expert Mike Hudson (a modern-day Alexis de Tocqueville) offers an outsider-looking-in guide to the management and governance of nonprofits in the United States. In this important book, he tackles three major questions: What are the leading-edge approaches to managing nonprofit organizations? What should managers and board members be doing differently to enhance the performance of their organizations? How can the impact of the nonprofit sector be significantly increased? Basing his interviews on face-to-face interviews with leading nonprofit CEOs, consultants, academics, and senior managers, Hudson shows what does and does not work in nonprofit organizations. He then distills the best practices from these organizations into practical advice and guidance.   Managing at the Leading Edge presents Hudson’s thought-provoking, proven-in-practice agenda and shows nonprofit leaders how to: Read a Charity Channel review:

336 pages, Hardcover

First published September 26, 2003

Reviews

[Jasmine Bamlet · Rating 3 out of 5]

An informative, though somewhat dated at this point, overview of the key challenges that nonprofits face and the ways in which they can creatively solve those issues.

Mike Hudson did thorough research and supplemented his numbers with great quotes and case studies to further demonstrate the content he was covering.

For anyone in the nonprofit sector looking to get some ideas about how to revamp your organization to maximize efficiency and effectiveness, I recommend giving this book a quick read! Lots of great ideas and thought-prompts.