November 13, 2003 | Read Time: 1 minute
The Executive Director’s Survival Guide: Thriving as a Nonprofit Leader
by Mim Carlson and Margaret Donohoe
Executive directors must oversee the daily operations of nonprofit organizations while helping them better fulfill their missions, write Mim Carlson and Margaret Donohoe, leadership-development consultants in San Francisco. This book offers advice to help executives accomplish these tasks without succumbing to burnout, a problem that affects many nonprofit directors.
The authors provide suggestions for tackling duties like fund raising and creating a budget, as well as for seeking the support of coaches and mentors. Scattered throughout the book are brief descriptions of real-life situations that demonstrate how executives have handled various challenges.
One section focuses on the importance of developing strong relationships with staff members, board members, and volunteers. The authors give advice on how to deal with board members who want to exert too much control over the daily operations of a nonprofit group, and describe a situation in which a director successfully remedied such a situation.
Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 989 Market Street, San Francisco, Calif. 94103-1741; (800) 956-7739; http://www.josseybass.com; 288 pages pages; $32; I.S.B.N. 0-7879-5877-8.
