Another Perspective on the Leadership Crisis

This morning, the Chronicle of Philanthropy posted an article on its website about some new research that's being done on the predicted 'Leadership Crisis' in the nonprofit sector. It's one of the first pieces I've read that resonates with my perception of the issues, and looks beyond the framework of a "replacement theory," where new leaders fill the holes that retiring leaders leave behind, but instead looks at what kinds of organizations rising leaders want to run, and how their management styles (and different sense of achieving work/life balance) will change what it means to run a nonprofit in the future...

Here's a link to the Compasspoint study that the article references.

Next week we're going to the Grantmakers for Effective Organizations conference in San Francisco, where this is sure to be a hot topic. We'll let you know what we learn!