| Stories of Transformative Leadership in the Human Services: Why the Glass Is Always Full Contributor(s): Burghardt, Steve (Author), Tolliver, Willie (Author) |
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ISBN: 1412970164 ISBN-13: 9781412970167 Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc OUR PRICE: $122.55 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2009 Annotation: Transformative Leadership in the Human Services is a creative approach to helping students understand some of the most common dilemmas faced in nonprofit agencies and organizations. It is a unique book that conveys the challenges in human service agencies via two stories of nonprofit organizations. One is constantly dealing with one crisis after another and is usually in a reactive mode. The second story tells of an organization that is run as a learning organization and thus is more effective in running efficiently, as it is in a constant state of evaluating and learning from its mistakes. At the end of each chapter are reflective questions and finally after both stories are two theoretical models that help explain what is happening in these organizations. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare |
| Dewey: 361.006 |
| LCCN: 2008045848 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.6" W x 8.5" (0.95 lbs) 296 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Certain to excite and inspire both students entering the human services field and seasoned non-profit professionals, Stories of Transformative Leadership in the Human Services: Why the Glass Is Always Full is the first full-length leadership book to focus on the unique challenges of the public and non-profit executive, manager, and educator. Written in a lively story-telling style, the book develops a leadership model for those who inspire without bonuses and seek a powerful legacy through people′s lives. Using real-life vignettes drawn from actual experiences, the stories in this book distill important lessons and unfold in a powerful manner that will resonate with any professional asked to work harder . . . with a smaller budget. Questions woven through each story connect to the book′s more theoretical material on leadership, personal mastery, and community-building. |
Contributor Bio(s): Burghardt, Steve: - Steve Burghardt, PhD, is professor of social work at the Hunter College School of Social Work and partner of the Leadership Transformation Group, is a recognized expert on community organizing, democratic leadership, and popular education. He has taught, trained, consulted, and organized with both grass roots community groups and large scale public agencies on new models of practice throughout his career. The author of seven other books and numerous articles, he has won numerous awards for his teaching on community organizing through popular education, political economy of social welfare, and theories of social change. |