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Why Empathy is the Key to Outstanding Leadership in Nonprofit Organizations

Beth Kanter

Recently, we have been exploring a fascinating topic that is not only close to our hearts, but very timely due to burnout in the nonprofit sector – empathetic leadership. Empathetic leadership, to us, is about seeing through the eyes of others. Now, you might be wondering, “how do we practice empathy in our leadership styles?”

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Spring Book Sale – 10% Off All Books

CSAE

Our books cover topics such as governance, operations, leadership and media and government relations in great depth. Visit the bookstore CSAE’s publications are a valuable resource for association and not-for-profit professionals and volunteers.

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Influential Reading: Six Books I Return to Regularly

Idea Architects

A meeting I recently attended had participants introduce themselves by sharing a book that influenced our thinking about leadership and organizations. From that list, here are six of the books I find myself returning to and re-reading regularly (in alphabetical order). Just one we all cried? a simpler way by Margaret A.

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Book Review: Leadership and Self-Deception

Jamie Notter

Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box. This book argues that many problems we face internally in our organizations (conflict among employees or silos, nasty bosses, ineffective employees, etc.) The truth is, every organization is run by human beings, and all human beings have egos to defend.

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The Smart Nonprofit Book Launches 3/9

Beth Kanter

I’ve got some very exciting news, my new book, The Smart Nonprofit: Staying Human-Centered in an Automated World , co-authored with Allison Fine, launches on Wednesday, March 9th. You can purchase the book on Amazon! Allison Fine and I will be presenting at two FREE online book talks, please join us. Here are some messages.

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Don’t Get Too Comfortable at the Top–AI Puts a Twist on Leadership

.orgSource

Several years ago, my business partner Kevin Ordonez and I, wrote two books. Our research included interviewing thought leaders, organizing think tanks, and surveying professionals. leadership is how we christened the skill set we identified for success in digital markets. The leadership qualities we identified hold.

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Book of the Month - February 2019

Association Success

The guide book to lead you into the next era of the association industry is ready! Kevin Ordonez and Sherry Budziak have a combined 40 years of leadership and executive consulting experience. With the aim of understanding how organizations were managing the turmoil occurring around them, they interviewed 23 C-Suite executives.