Podcast

Margaret Neale - Nonprofit Managment and Negotiation

Nonprofit management should include negotiation in its toolkit, yet few professionals are skilled at doing it. In this University podcast, Margaret Neale, Stanford Graduate School of Business professor, explores the psychological barriers to successful negotiation and suggests a disciplined process for a rewarding negotiation experience. She delivers her talk to an audience of nonprofit executives at the 2006 Nonprofit Management Institute at Stanford.

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Peter Eigen - Champion for Accountability

Transparency International is a global network with a mission to create a world free of corruption. In this audio lecture, Peter Eigen chronicles the experiences that led him from a directorship at the World Bank to the head of a movement to strengthen civil society by stamping out corruption. He reports on new incentives for good conduct that have made the elimination of corruption a cornerstone in the international effort to promote global equity.

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Fazle H. Abed - Innovator for the Poor

The beginnings of the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC) were fraught with uncertainty. Initially surviving entirely on donations, it has since earned back two pennies for every one it has spent on welfare activities, and is today the largest, self-reliant international NGO, employing more than 97,000 people. In this audio lecture, Fazle Hasan Abed reminisces about the organization's humble beginnings and shares the organization's achievements.

Elusive Blue Ribbons

By Ellen Benjamin, DePaul University

Why winning foundations' special awards is difficult, and how it can be made easier.

Happy-Face Blues

By Marguerite Rigoglioso

How supervisors exhaust their workers by constraining their emotions.

Review: The Big Moo

Review By Alan R. Andreasen

Stop Trying to Be Perfect and Start Being Remarkable.

Review: Third Sector Development

Review By Jacob Harold

Nonprofits are still sorely needed in the US.

Review: Good to Great and the Social Sectors

Review By Robert Gertner

Lessons for becoming the best can translate from companies to social organizations.

Bettering Beantown

By Betsy Haley

Greenlight is a nonprofit catalyst: It identifes a local need, scours the country for the best program to meet it, and then establishes a chapter in its hometown.

Review: The First 90 Days

Review By Jason Baumgarten

Common sense advice for how to survive the launch into a new leadership role.