Must Reads
About the collection
Twenty-one articles on leadership that the Getty Leadership Institute and NAS have identified specifically for busy arts and cultural professionals.
Improving Leadership in Nonprofit Organizations
The book is intended to be a guidebook for leading nonprofit organizations rather than a handbook of nonprofit leadership or management.
Managing the Arts: Leadership and Decision Making under Dual Rationalities
The dual functions of guiding artistic or educational activities and an organization’s administration fosters structural complexity, competing sets of goals, multiple stakeholder claims and values in some tension with one another.
Democracy as Problem Solving: Civic Capacity in Communities Across the Globe
Making change in communities requires civic capacity. Power is wielded not only by elected politicians,…
Generations: The Challenge of a Lifetime for Your Nonprofit
Sustainable performing arts organizations understand their audiences. Sustainable museums understand their visitors. Audiences and visitors…
The Marketization of the Nonprofit Sector: Civil Society at Risk?
In this journal article, authors Elkenberry and Drapal Kluver examine the threat that “marketization” poses to democracy and citizenship.
Mission Impact: Breakthrough Strategies for Nonprofits
In order to discuss strategy intelligently in the nonprofit sector, we must first understand what…
Good to Great and the Social Sectors: Why Business Thinking is Not the Answer
A short read—an essay really—this piece adapts the principles of Good to Great to the nonprofit sector.
The Five Most Important Questions You Will Ever Ask About Your Organization
Airport bookstores are filled with the latest answers from management gurus. None have enjoyed anything…
Designing for Growth
Jeanne Liedtka has been a hugely successful faculty member of the Getty Leadership Institute’s flagship…
Connective Leadership: Managing in a Changing World
The environment shared by for-profits and nonprofits has remarkable similarities: a global economy afflicted with…
Real Leadership: Helping People and Organizations Face Their Toughest Challenges
Dean Williams is a writer and scholar with significant international experience (he served for five…
