Person-Centered Leadership for Nonprofit Organizations: Management that Works in High Pressure Systems / Edition 1

This book describes an approach to participatory management and leadership that has proven effective for organizations in U.S. and other western countries where people won't permit teambuilding to develop to the exclusion of individuality. The groundbreaking core of the book shows how this participatory management strategy, Person-Centered Leadership for Nonprofit Organizations, can be incorporated with great success into high stress nonprofit organizations. The book describes the leadership philosophy and day-to-day operations of an award-winning social service organization that targets youth and their families while successfully using person-centered strategies as the management model.