Mastering the Management Buckets: 20 Critical Competencies for Leading Your Business or Non-Profit

by John Pearson, Bob Buford (Foreword by)

Overview

In the most practical, humorous, and fast-moving chapters you've ever read on business and nonprofit leadership and management, this in-the-trenches management expert presents his 20 Management Buckets System for understanding and organizing your important mission. "When you don't know what you don't know," says John Pearson, "the Law of Unintended Consequences will derail you every time." Based on Pearson's 48-hour Management Buckets Workshop Experience, Mastering the Management Buckets offers detailed implementation tools, including 99 practical takeaways that a leader could implement immediately, plus nine management breakthrough strategies. Learn how The People Bucket, The Donor Bucket, The Hoopla Bucket, The Customer Bucket, and others can make or break your organization. For managers and leaders to use on their own, in weekly staff meetings, mentoring young leaders and managers, and a host of other ways.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780801018145
Publisher:	Baker Publishing Group
Publication date:	05/01/2008
Pages:	284
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)
Age Range:	18 - 10 Years

About the Author

John Pearson is president of the management consulting company John Pearson Associates, Inc. With thirty years of CEO experience, he served twenty-five years leading three associations, including the Christian Management Association, Willow Creek Association, and Christian Camp and Conference Association. In addition to consulting with both nonprofit and for-profit clients, he conducts frequent training workshops on his Management Buckets program and on nonprofit board governance. He is the coauthor of Marketing Your Ministry and publishes a weekly eNewsletter, Your Weekly Staff Meeting.

Table of Contents

Foreword   Bob Buford     9
Acknowledgments     13
Introduction: Buckets 101     17
The Cause
The Results Bucket     25
The Customer Bucket     39
The Strategy Bucket     57
The Drucker Bucket     67
The Book Bucket     77
The Program Bucket     89
The Community
The People Bucket With Don German and Bob Kobielush     109
The Culture Bucket     123
The Team Bucket     133
The Hoopla! Bucket     143
The Donor Bucket     157
The Volunteer Bucket     167
The Crisis Bucket     179
The Corporation
The Board Bucket     191
The Budget Bucket     201
The Delegation Bucket     213
The Operations Bucket     227
The Systems Bucket     235
The Printing Bucket     243
The Meetings Bucket     255
Closing Thoughts: The Leaky, Rusted-out Bucket     269
About John Pearson Associates, Inc.     271
Endnotes     273
Index     281