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February 2010

Dear Friends:

In 1990, our work with Peter Drucker’s Self Assessment Tool and The Five Most Important Questions began. The demand then was performance, and the same demand exists today and for the future.

On Friday, February 19, Leader to Leader presented a one-day training workshop on the third edition of Peter Drucker’s The Five Most Important Questions led by certified facilitator Cathey Brown, Executive Director of Rainbow Days, Inc. in Dallas, Texas - combining strategic planning and performance evaluation with a focus on results.

Attendees included senior-level leadership from 19 social sector organizations including "I Have A Dream" Foundation, American Foundation for the Blind, Girls Incorporated, Reading Excellence and Discovery (READ) Foundation and The YMCA of Greater New York/North Brooklyn.

Here is a small collection of photos from the Workshop:

If Peter Drucker were here to sit down with your organization, he would ask, "What is your mission? Who is your customer? What does your customer value? What are your results?" and "What is your plan?"

Just as when we were founded, in 1990 as the Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management, we are committed today to a journey of self-discovery. Please contact us to learn more about The Five Questions Workshop.

Sincerely,

The Leader to Leader Institute Staff
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This Sunday, February 28 Frances Hesselbein will be interviewed on The CEO Show, know as "The '60 Minutes' of radio". Hosted by Robert G. Reiss, an expert in developing and implementing customer centric strategies, Reiss coined the phrase, 'Customer Experience Organization' and has been cited as an "expert in executive communication" by the Harvard Business Review.



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Each month, bestselling author (Success Built to Last) and business coach Mark Thompson, who collaborated with Leader to Leader Institute to create Leadership Dialogues, and who serves as Chairman and Chief Leadership Officer for the program will share an experience from one of his many leadership interviews. This month, Mark profiles 2003 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Iranian born Shirin Ebadi.

Iranian born Shirin Ebadi, knew from an early age that she was destined for a life upholding justice: "When I was a child and would see a fight break out in the street, I’d rush over to defend the person who was being beaten up, without really trying to understand what the fight was about," she told me.

That love for justice sent Ebadi to law school, when, after graduation, she became a judge. However, because of the Iranian Revolution (the 31st anniversary of which is today), Ebadi was told that she could no longer serve as a judge because she was a woman. Undeterred, she became an attorney at law and began defending human rights cases.

Read more here.

The American Management Association (AMA) and Leader to Leader are collaborating for the fourth year in a row to provide 75 scholarships to social sector personnel.

The scholarship award includes:

• One of more than 140 professional development seminars offered by AMA in the U.S;
• One year individual member benefits including access to members-only website, subscriptions to e-newsletters and journals, and discount pricing on all other AMA products and services;
• One year membership with the Leader to Leader Institute including subscription to award-winning Leader to Leader Journal and discounts on the Institute's publications and services.

Qualified candidates are encouraged to apply at www.leadertoleader.org.

Melanie Staggers, a 2009 AMA Scholarship recipient participated in AMA’s highly interactive, four-day Myers-Brigs Type Indicator Certification program workshop. "I just completed my certification training this past week in Chicago and it was such an "eye opening" experience. I look forward to helping many via MBTI. Again, Thank you!"

Mission Impact: Breakthrough Strategies for Nonprofit, by Robert M. Sheehan Jr.

Devotees of Peter Drucker's The Five Most Important Questions will find in Mission Impact a practical guide to strategic change, as well as an accompanying Web site, to help transform your nonprofit organization.

"The method I propose," says Mr. Sheehan, "begins with achieving clarity on mission and intended mission impact. One of Peter Drucker’s five most important questions is 'What are our results?'  Once this is clear then a nonprofit can articulate its Mission Gap – an identification of unmet mission needs.  Often, Mission Gaps are more like Mission Chasms and this is a daunting challenge for nonprofit professionals, but also a part of the responsibility of working in the social sector."

Read more on the Leader to Leader Blog

About the Author

Robert M. Sheehan, Jr. is the Academic Director of the Executive MBA Program and the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland – College Park.  He is also Principal of Sheehan Nonprofit Consulting. His newly released book is Mission Impact:  Breakthrough Strategies for Nonprofits.

“Don’t tell me you’ve had a wonderful meeting with me…Tell me what you’re going to do on Monday that’s different.” Peter F. Drucker

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