Why getting results should be every nonprofit manager's first priority

A nonprofit manager's fundamental job is to get results, sustained over time, rather than boost morale or promote staff development. This is a shift from the tenor of many management books, particularly in the nonprofit world. Managing to Change the World is designed to teach new and experienced nonprofit managers the fundamental skills of effective management, including: managing specific tasks and broader responsibilities; setting clear goals and holding people accountable to them; creating a results-oriented culture; hiring, developing, and retaining a staff of superstars.

• Offers nonprofit managers a clear guide to the most effective management skills
• Shows how to address performance problems, dismiss staffers who fall short, and the right way to exercising authority
• Gives guidance for managing time wisely and offers suggestions for staying in sync with your boss and managing up

This important resource contains 41 resources and downloadable tools that can be implemented immediately.

From the creator of the popular website Ask a Manager and New York's work-advice columnist comes a witty, practical guide to 200 difficult professional conversations--featuring all-new advice

There's a reason Alison Green has been called the Dear Abby of the work world. Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward conversations in the office because they simply don't know what to say. Thankfully, Green does--and in this incredibly helpful book, she tackles the tough discussions you may need to have during your career. You'll learn what to say when

- coworkers push their work on you--then take credit for it
- you accidentally trash-talk someone in an email then hit reply all
- you're being micromanaged--or not being managed at all
- you catch a colleague in a lie
- your boss seems unhappy with your work
- your cubemate's loud speakerphone is making you homicidal
- you got drunk at the holiday party

Praise for Ask a Manager

A must-read for anyone who works . . . Alison Green's] advice boils down to the idea that you should be professional (even when others are not) and that communicating in a straightforward manner with candor and kindness will get you far, no matter where you work.--Booklist (starred review)

The author's friendly, warm, no-nonsense writing is a pleasure to read, and her advice can be widely applied to relationships in all areas of readers' lives. Ideal for anyone new to the job market or new to management, or anyone hoping to improve their work experience.--Library Journal (starred review)

I am a huge fan of Alison Green's Ask a Manager column. This book is even better. It teaches us how to deal with many of the most vexing big and little problems in our workplaces--and to do so with grace, confidence, and a sense of humor.--Robert Sutton, Stanford professor and author of The No Asshole Rule and The Asshole Survival Guide

Ask a Manager is the ultimate playbook for navigating the traditional workforce in a diplomatic but firm way.--Erin Lowry, author of Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together

An increasing proportion of exhibitions are curated by artists rather than professional curators, and in this book Alison Green provides the first critical history of visual artists as curators. Green's curatorial artist emerges as a seemingly contradictory figure: someone who carries a special responsibility for critiquing art's institutions, for bringing considerable creativity to the craft of making exhibitions and, through experimentation, someone who has changed the way exhibitions are understood to be authored and experienced--but at the same time, someone who is curiously ubiquitous.

Rather than portraying artist curators as exceptional or rare, Green establishes the fact that artists curate all the time and in all kinds of places: in galleries and in museums, in studios, in borrowed spaces such as shopfronts or industrial buildings, in front rooms and front windows, in zoos or concert halls, on streets and in nature. Seen from the perspective of artists, showing is a part of making art. Once this idea is understood, the story of art starts to look very different. Beautifully illustrated and featuring in-depth explorations of the work of revered artist curators like Daniel Buren, Goshka Macuga, Thomas Hirschhorn, Rosemarie Trockel, Hito Steyerl, Andy Warhol, and F lix Gonz lez-Torres, When Artists Curate will change the way we think about and look at exhibitions.

From bestselling artist Axel Scheffler, a joyful new picture book that celebrates togetherness, empathy, and friendship, published in support of refugee charity Three Peas.

Inside this book, we make everyone welcome. Whether you're big or small, jumpy of flappy, stompy and noisy, or a little bit shy and quiet... you're ALL welcome. No one's left out because it takes all sorts to make a happy world, and our best friend might turn out to be someone who's quite different from us.

From the co-creators of Kind comes a warm-hearted welcome of a book, expressing the importance of inclusive action, such as sharing, kindness, and extending a hand of friendship to others, no matter who they are or where they're from. Featuring a cast of Axel Scheffler's cheerful, funny animal characters, Welcome celebrates empathy and togetherness, and is published in support of refugee charity Three Peas.

Hidden, that is what I had become. I have always hidden myself from the time I realized I was a human being, a person, a little girl, and now an adult. I never wanted to be seen. I was looked at as a shy girl. I always felt alone, although I wasn't. At times, I feel like I am still that little girl who wants to be hidden. Even today, as I write, I sometimes feel the aloneness creeping up on me. Believe me, I like being left alone and being by myself most of the time, but there is a difference when you are alone and lonely inside. The struggle for me was REAL.

According to Webster's dictionary, hidden means concealed; not visible; not easy to find; or being out of sight. That's it! The words not visible kind of hit me. Not visible pretty much sounded like me in a nutshell. Let me tell you why: I could be in a room full of people, and I felt like my family or friends did not see me. I felt like I was not being heard when I spoke, or I was being spoken over. Maybe it was because I was just soft-spoken, and people didn't hear me. Nah, I can talk pretty loudly if I want to. If you know my family and me, we talk loud when together, so it couldn't have been because of that.