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The 5 Truths for Transformational Leaders
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The 5 Truths for Transformational Leaders

by Ed Mishrell
May 2023
Intermediate to advanced
256 pages
5h 33m
English
Wiley
Audiobook available

Overview

Use mission-driven leadership to create dramatic growth at your nonprofit 

In The Five Truths for Transformational Leaders: How Nonprofit Organizations Thrive, Grow, and Make a Profound Difference, former Chief Strategy Officer for the Boys and Girls Clubs of America, Ed Mishrell, delivers an insightful and practical discussion of how to achieve extraordinary results when leading nonprofit organizations. The author explains how to use your organization’s mission as your north star and build an exciting, growing, and thriving nonprofit. 

You’ll benefit from the book’s step-by-step guidance and advice as it outlines the five key principles of mission-driven leadership. You’ll also discover incisive quotes and observations from board members and staff leaders at fast-growing nonprofit organizations you can apply to your own nonprofit for immediate results. 

The book also offers:  

  • Strategies for eliminating or repairing ineffective systems and practices that are holding your organization back
  • Techniques for centering your nonprofit’s mission in everything it does
  • Ways to build – and execute – a mission-driven strategy 


A start-to-finish blueprint for exceptional, growth-oriented nonprofit leadership, The Five Truths for Transformational Leaders will revolutionize the work of every nonprofit board member, manager, and leader who reads it. 

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