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January 10, 2015 - 9:00am to 5:00pm

Generally speaking, "management" is getting work done through others" Leadership is creating and sustaining change without crisis. This minicourse explores these concepts in the context of community benefit organizations[CBOs](aka, nonprofits) . While CBOs are organizations, and thus share a lot of features with other kinds of organisations (corporate, governmental) they have many elements of unique structure and stricture. They tend to work with "wicked problems"; they have a different governance structure from corporate and governmental organizations; they have a strong sense of mission and purpose, which is highly motivating but also can lead to under-investment in infrastructure both hardware (physical plant, etc) and software (employee training and development)...

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