In "Water-Like Leaders and Strategy," Dr. Nellie Swanepoel invites you on a journey where her passions for water and leadership converge into a powerful synthesis. Imagine yourself floating down a serene river, feeling the gentle yet unstoppable force of the current. This is how leadership should feel—graceful, powerful, and transformative. As you navigate the pages, you'll experience the wisdom of leadership through the lens of water. Picture a river carving out a majestic canyon over thousands of years, its path shaped by unwavering determination and vision. This is the essence of true leadership. And like the mighty waterfall that cascades with decisive, powerful force, leaders must know when to take bold actions. Dr. Swanepoel's book is more than a guide; it’s a practical manual for modern, adaptable, and compassionate leadership. By drawing parallels between the natural water cycle and leadership cycles, she unveils the complexities and endless possibilities within organizational life. Leaders find themselves in uncharted waters, navigating hybrid offices and the rise of artificial intelligence. This new environment challenges traditional leadership principles, blending the emotional impact of the pandemic with the efficient, sometimes impersonal nature of AI. "Water-Like Leaders and Strategy" will not only question your leadership skills but will delve into your deepest passions and motivations. Our world does not only need competent leaders—it needs kind and resilient leaders, combined in one. Dr. Swanepoel’s insights will inspire you to become a transformational leader. This book is essential for anyone who aspires to lead with empathy, resilience, and vision. Prepare to be challenged, inspired, and ultimately transformed. Dive in and discover a refreshing perspective on leadership that will empower you to flow and lead like water.

Available for the first time in paperback, Barna unveils the results of years of research and hundreds of interviews, and emerges with a new definition of what leadership is--and isn't.

We are entering a new era—an era of impact. The largest intergenerational transfer of wealth in history will soon be under way, bringing with it the potential for huge increases in philanthropic funding. Engine of Impact shows how nonprofits can apply the principles of strategic leadership to attract greater financial support and leverage that funding to maximum effect. As Good to Great author Jim Collins writes in his foreword, this book offers "a detailed roadmap of disciplined thought and action for turning a good nonprofit into one that can achieve great impact at scale." William F. Meehan III and Kim Starkey Jonker identify seven essential components of strategic leadership that set high-achieving organizations apart from the rest of the nonprofit sector. Together, these components form an "engine of impact"—a system that organizations must build, tune, and fuel if they hope to make a real difference in the world. Drawing on decades of teaching, advising, grantmaking, and research, Meehan and Jonker provide an actionable guide that executives, staff, board members, and donors can use to jumpstart their own performance and to achieve extraordinary results for their organization. Along with setting forth best practices using real-world examples, the authors outline common management challenges faced by nonprofits, showing how these challenges differ from those faced by for-profit businesses in important and often-overlooked ways. By offering crucial insights on the fundamentals of nonprofit management, this book will help leaders equip their organizations to fire on all cylinders and unleash the full potential of the nonprofit sector. Visit www.engineofimpact.org for additional information.

Ten years ago, world-renowned professors W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne broke ground by introducing "blue ocean strategy," a new model for discovering uncontested markets that are ripe for growth. In this bound version of their bestselling Harvard Business Review classic article, they apply their concepts and tools to what is perhaps the greatest challenge of leadership: closing the gulf between the potential and the realized talent and energy of employees. Research indicates that this gulf is vast: According to Gallup, 70% of workers are disengaged from their jobs. If companies could find a way to convert them into engaged employees, the results could be transformative. The trouble is, managers lack a clear understanding of what changes they could make to bring out the best in everyone. In this article, Kim and Mauborgne offer a solution to that problem: a systematic approach to uncovering, at each level of the organization, which leadership acts and activities will inspire employees to give their all, and a process for getting managers throughout the company to start doing them. Blue ocean leadership works because the managers' "customers"--that is, the people managers oversee and report to--are involved in identifying what's effective and what isn't. Moreover, the approach doesn't require leaders to alter who they are, just to undertake a different set of tasks. And that kind of change is much easier to implement and track than changes to values and mind-sets. The Harvard Business Review Classics series offers you the opportunity to make seminal Harvard Business Review articles a part of your permanent management library. Each highly readable volume contains a groundbreaking idea that continues to shape best practices and inspire countless managers around the world--and will have a direct impact on you today and for years to come.

In the tradition of Octavia Butler, here is radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help to shape the futures we want. Change is constant. The world, our bodies, and our minds are in a constant state of flux. They are a stream of ever-mutating, emergent patterns. Rather than steel ourselves against such change, Emergent Strategy teaches us to map and assess the swirling structures and to read them as they happen, all the better to shape that which ultimately shapes us, personally and politically. A resolutely materialist spirituality based equally on science and science fiction: a wild feminist and afro-futurist ride! adrienne maree brown, co-editor of Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements, is a social justice facilitator, healer, and doula living in Detroit.

This reference handbook tackles issues relevant to leadership in the realm of the environment and sustainability.