Year: 2014
Type: article
Abstract: Chapter I: IntroductionI shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.--Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken How can we examine the nonprofit leadership dilemma and develop a new model of leadership that would provide practical guidance for executives and board members?The nonprofit leadership dilemma is the intrusion of marketplace values and business models into a sector whose very identity and purpose are independent of such influences.As a result, the governance, structures, and understanding of nonprofit leadership have been compromised and are ready for changes that will align behaviors with the identity and purpose of the sector.The purpose of this dissertation is to propose a new model of nonprofit leadership that will offer an alternative to business management models and marketplace values.I am currently the President of De La Salle High School in New Orleans.My return to educational leadership has placed my dissertation into a far more practitioner-oriented context than I ever imagined when I started the Antioch program in 2007.I bring to this dissertation an ability to derive examples from current and past work to add to the depth and relevance of the model and add credibility to the claims.In addition, as an instructor since 2010 in the Duke University Nonprofit Executive Leadership Program, I have had the opportunity to teach elements of the model and incorporate the insights of participants and colleagues.I identify a gap in existing literature available to nonprofit leaders and articulate the inappropriate presence of management thinking within a leadership framework for nonprofit
Author: Michael E. Guillot
Institution: Antioch University
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2288237888