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SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Whether you’re looking to brush up on best practices for annual appeals, boost your fundraising game on social media this GivingTuesday , or build expert storytelling skills to win over supporters this giving season and beyond, we’ve got you covered with this list of 12 free nonprofit books. So is almost every other nonprofit.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Friedman teaches that there are seven steps , based on human virtues we all strive to achieve, that are key to unlocking the power of a people-first culture : Patience. Greg Friedman, Ms, CFP You'll also learn from the book the most common culture killers , which are: Focusing too much on a hierarchical organization. Complacency.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 6, 2025

Stumped for what business books to add to your spring (or spring break) reading list? Here are five must-read books for leaders well worth adding to your list: Lead With A Story -- A Guide To Crafting Business Narratives That Captivate, Convince, and Inspire. This book is a wake-up call for every business leader. His advice?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

There is good reason why, The Leadership Challenge , book is now in its sixth addition. It expertly teaches you what to do as a leader to mobilize others to want to get extraordinary things done in your organization. Posner , call these The Ten Commitments of Exemplary Leadership. The authors, James M. Kouzes and Barry Z.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 26, 2021

Pictured above are two books to add to your list for reading this month. Let The Story Do The Work explains that at the heart of leadership lies persuasion. In her book, author Esther K. Choy teaches you how to: Dispel any fears that you can't tell great stories. And at the heart of persuasion likes storytelling.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 16, 2021

Stumped for what leadership and business books to add to your winter reading list? Here are five must-read books for leaders well worth adding to your list: Lead With A Story -- A Guide To Crafting Business Narratives That Captivate, Convince, and Inspire. This book is a wake-up call for every business leader. His advice?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2021

This time each year, I select my pick for best new leadership book for the year. For 2021, my pick is, Heart First , Lasting Leadership Lessons From A Year That Changed Everything , by David Grossman , published in July 2021. And, if you read only one leadership book next year, make it this one.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 11, 2019

Skip Prichard’s new book, The Book of Mistakes , provides a motivating and inspiring fable and journey to finding the secrets to creating a successful future. This 175-page self-help tale, wrapped in fiction, teaches you the nine mistakes that prevent many from achieving their goals. Know your inherent value.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Today, we flashback to 2018 : The new book, Say What You Mean , by Oren Jay Sofer , couldn’t have come at a better time. Published toward the end of 2018, Sofer’s book teaches you how to find your voice, speak your truth and listen deeply. And, that’s why, Say What You Mean , is my pick for B est New Leadership Book for 2018.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2020

Today, we flashback to 2018 : The new book, Say What You Mean , by Oren Jay Sofer , couldn’t have come at a better time. Published toward the end of 2018, Sofer’s book teaches you how to find your voice, speak your truth and listen deeply. And, that’s why, Say What You Mean , is my pick for B est New Leadership Book for 2018.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 24, 2025

The Courage Solution , a book by Mindy Mackenzie , is all about the simple truth that the only thing you can reliably change or control is yourself. So, that is why Mackenzie wrote her book to teach you how to take actions that ultimately will improve your impact on the job and increase your happiness and fulfillment in your career.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

“No matter your title, or how advanced you already consider yourself to be as an inclusive leader, I believe this book will help you evolve and motivate you to take action,” says Jennifer Brown about her book, How To be An Inclusive Leader: Your Role In Creating Cultures Of Belonging Where Everyone Can Thrive.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 20, 2024

Yes, it will take you some time to read Joshua Spodek 's book, Leadership Step by Step. Yes, this is a book you'll read and likely need to revisit a few times for the concepts to fully sink in. Yes, this is a book you must read if you want to become the person others will follow.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

Published Book Three: In 2016, I published “ The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout ,” with co-author Aliza Sherman. The book was well received and was #1 on Amazon’s Nonprofit Books many times throughout October-December as we presented dozens online webinars and guest posts and articles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2018

She just published a new book, Social Start Up Success: How the Best Nonprofits Launch, Scale Up, and Make a Difference. The book is based on a five-year research project where Janus interviewed hundreds innovative nonprofit organizations. How to cultivate collective leadership to sustain the organization and avoid burnout?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 19, 2023

Since then, Magnuson has provided his leadership insights multiple times for my blog and in 2020, I named his book, Stand Out! , as the best new leadership and business book for that year. I started the Everyday Leadership blog 11 years ago. I guess you could say my leadership engine was all revved up.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

“The most successful companies are those that adopt an Experience Mindset that strengthens both employee experience (EX) and customer experience (CS) at the same time,” explains Tiffani Bova , author of the new book, The Experience Mindset: Changing the Way You Think About Growth. Greater employee satisfaction with leadership.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 6, 2024

“Too often, we don’t find out what’s truly on others’ hearts and minds because we don’t know how to ask the right questions in the right ways,” explains Jeff Wetzler , author of the new book, ASK. As you’ll see through the book, people don’t always give you the whole story right up front. Wetzler : Absolutely.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2022

“No matter your title, or how advanced you already consider yourself to be as an inclusive leader, I believe this book will help you evolve and motivate you to take action,” says Jennifer Brown about her new book, How To be An Inclusive Leader: Your Role In Creating Cultures Of Belonging Where Everyone Can Thrive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

The book was well received and was #1 on Amazon’s Nonprofit Books many times. In order to accomplish as much as possible, I have lived many of the ideas around self-care that we wrote about in our book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit. I will continue to write about and teach workshops on digital strategy.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 5, 2024

If you want to create a heart culture and a people-first culture at your workplace, read the book, Advisory Leadership , by Greg Friedman. Friedman teaches that there are seven steps , based on human virtues we all strive to achieve, that are key to unlocking the power of a people-first culture : Patience. Complacency.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

This book is the result of what we have learned teaching leadership and business acumen classes to rising and senior leaders at Fortune 500 companies for twenty years,” share authors Nathan Kracklauer and Bjorn Billhardt. In addition, the book provides an excellent glossary of most used terms within business.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

International Training Work: Most of my work is designing and delivering capacity building projects for nonprofits literally all over the world. This past year I had the honor of facilitating an intense training in Tunisia in January for Women Entrepreneurs that included leadership, entrepreneurship, business planning, and communications.

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

This video-based coding academy teaches coding skills in a fun, accessible, and engaging format on YouTube and other social media platforms (for free!). There’s also Dr. Avriel Epps, an AI ethicist who is educating young minds about AI through her upcoming book, A Kids Book About AI Bias.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Stumped for what business books to add to your fall reading list? Here are five must-read books for leaders well worth adding to your list: Lead With A Story -- A Guide To Crafting Business Narratives That Captivate, Convince, and Inspire. This book is a wake-up call for every business leader. I couldn't put this book down.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 19, 2024

Here are the 12 golden rules of effective communication from Paul Falcone , as highlighted in his book, 2600 Phrases for Setting Effective Performance Goals. Remember that thankfulness and appreciation are the two most important values you can share with our employees and teach them to live by: make them the core foundation of your culture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2020

The book was well received and was #1 on Amazon’s Nonprofit Books many times. In order to accomplish as much as possible, I have lived many of the idea around personal resilience in my book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit. I will continue to write about and teach workshops on digital strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2015

This post follows yesterday’s post about networked leadership skills. I had the honor of being a guest facilitator at a transformative leadership retreat with colleagues Heather McLeod Grant, Chris Block, Lance Fors, and David Havens – I got to teach but more importantly got to learn from amazing people.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 23, 2023

In their new book, Real-Time Leadership , leadership coaches David Noble and Carol Kauffman teach leaders how to use their unique MOVE framework to help leaders adjust their reflexive reactions and optimize their responses to any situation – including unexpected and complex leadership challenges.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 8, 2022

then the new book, Both/And Thinking , by authors Wendy Smith and Marianne Lewis , is for you. It will teach you how to navigate these types of paradoxes more effectively. As the book explains, that better way is both/and thinking versus traditional either/or thinking. How can I take care of myself while supporting others?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Skip Prichard’s book, The Book of Mistakes , provides a motivating and inspiring fable and journey to finding the secrets to creating a successful future. This 175-page self-help tale, wrapped in fiction, teaches you the nine mistakes that prevent many from achieving their goals. Know your inherent value.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2022

In fact, there is a lab at Stanford that studies workplace rituals and a book, “ Rituals at Work ,” devoted to the topic). The Smart Nonprofit: Allison Fine and I wrote and submitted the manuscript for our second book together, The Smart Nonprofit: Staying Human-Centered in Age of Automation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

Last month, I was honored to present and facilitate an all-day workshop for nonprofit leaders at the Oregon Nonprofit Leadership Conference on how to activate a culture of well being in the nonprofit workplace, based on my book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout. Take other teams out for lunch.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 25, 2024

The new book, Shine , is a transformative guide that illustrates how looking inward is the key to unlocking true entrepreneurial freedom. Certainly, Shine is a book for entrepreneurs, however, it is bound to benefit any business leader. Thank you to the book’s publisher for sending me an advance copy of the book.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Your employees have different learning styles – typically falling within these three categories: Visual Learners Auditory Learners Tactile Learners Therefore, it’s best to incorporate all three styles when teaching something new, according to the book, Customer Service Management Training 101. On-the-job training works best for them.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

His new book provides an insider view into the drivers of success and challenges in 26 organizations—including industry giants like Apple, Tesla, Amazon, Microsoft, and Starbucks—along with actionable advice on replicating their winning approaches. Thank you to the book’s publisher for sending me an advance copy of the book.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 19, 2022

Dear Living in No-Man’s Land, You’ve asked a huge question, the answer to which is no doubt suitable for an entire book! A teaching moment. Your leadership? I have requested for funds several times but only get regrets!! — Living in No-Man’s Land. No” can mean multiple things. Maybe, if you: Asked for another project.

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