By learning to identify and tackle your biggest, least pleasant task first, you are "eating the frog." This book provides 21 methods for planning and organizing each day, setting priorities, getting started right away and completing jobs faster.

This resource shows nonprofits how to dramatically improve their performance using entrepreneurial methods. The clear explanations and inspiring examples demonstrate how to adopt of some of today's most successful business tools.

This essential guide, which is produced by the Independent Sector, provides the support and ideas nonprofit professionals need to make evaluation a part of their everyday work. Change the way the people in your organization see evaluation—from something that is done to them to something they can do themselves to strengthen their performance. With input from a wide range of experts, Trice Gray targets evaluation in program design, human resources, information systems, volunteers, fund raising and more.

Richard Steckel shows how nonprofits can play in the same league as the for-profits and win. As the director of the Denver Children's Museum, Dr. Steckel took an organization on the verge of losing the few grants it still had, and turned it into a model of nonprofit enterprise-a wealthy organization that got that way by using its talents. Filthy Rich is humorous, practical and filled with great ideas—a must read for everyone in the nonprofit sector.

Distilling 20 years of research on job satisfaction from their work with the Gallup research organization, the authors have pinpointed the factors that keep employees happily working. They present 12 questions employees can ask themselves to discover their level of job satisfaction. Managers can learn what factors are helping or hindering their employee retention rates and employee morale, and how to make progress on these critical issues.

Accelerate your funding process with this new book from the author of Planned Giving for Social Service Agencies. It is ideal for bringing board members, fund development staff, agency leaders, volunteers and donors up to speed on today's best practices. Learn about:
  - attracting major donors
  - organizing a capital campaign
  - establishing a foundation
  - maintaining relationships
  - current issues in philanthropy
  - meeting the challenges of a small or mid-sized organization
  - and more!
 

By telling the remarkable stories of leaders from different generations, the authors bring out common traits that great leaders share. They also illustrate some faces of the new generation that is molding the future.

In today's organizations, it's difficult to know who is in charge. You know it's not you, yet you want to contribute. Learn to enlist key people in your cause, gain support from decision-makers, create rewards for yourself, deal with politics, power, and more.

Collins studied 1,435 companies by asking, "Can a good company become a great company and if so, how?" The companies that made great strides over time used similar strategies. This book offers a guide to excellence based on those strategies, which are useful for any organization.

A former hospital administrator and consultant to hundreds of health care organizations, Studer packs his book with insights, tools, and in-depth recommendations for creating and sustaining a top quality business. His foundation for creating a culture of excellence is build around the "Five Pillars"—service, quality, people, finance, and growth. He develops each in detail and illustrates his points with numerous well told stories.

In a series of essays, Jerry Harvey uncovers the absurd, the fascinating and the humorous in contemporary management and organizational life. He describes the roles we play in our own downfall with a fresh look at the ethical, moral, and spiritual dilemmas leaders face.

Best-selling author Jim Collins tackles the question of why once-great organizations fall off a cliff. In his inimitable style, he describes the five stages of decline: Hubris Born of Success, Undisciplined Pursuit of More, Denial of Risk and Peril, Grasping for Salvation, and Capitulation to Irrelevance or Death. Read up, and don't let your company give in.