On High Performance Organizations

Frances Hesselbein is chairman of the board of governors of the Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management and editor-in-chief of its journal Leader to Leader. She is also the lead editor for the best-selling Drucker Foundation Future Series. Hesselbein served as CEO of the Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. from 1976 to 1990 and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States' highest civilian honor, in 1998. Rob Johnston is president and CEO of the Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management. He was executive producer for Leading in a Time of Change, a 2001 video featuring Peter F. Drucker and Peter M. Senge and for the Nonprofit Leader of the Future video teleconference. He is a senior editor for the Leader to Leader journal, and has contributed a chapter to Enterprising Nonprofits (Wiley, 2001).

• Introduction. About the Editors. 1. Putting One's House in Order (Frances Hesselbein). 2. High Reliability: The Power of Mindfulness (Karl Weick and Kathleen Sutcliffe, with David Obstfeld). 3. The Marketing of Leadership (Philip Kotler). 4. The View from a Cubicle (An Interview with Scott Adams). 5. Economically Correct Leadership (James O'Toole, Bruce Pasternack, and Jeffrey W. Bennett). 6. Laws of the Jungle and the New Laws of Business (Richard Tanner Pascale). 7. Better Than Plan: Managing Beyond the Budget (Douglas K. Smith). 8. An Alternative to Hierarchy (Gifford Pinchot). 9. A Passion for the Business (An Interview with Jacques Nasser). 10. Strategic Generosity (Leonard L. Berry). 11. Creating Your Next Business Model (Adrian Slywotzky). 12. Principles for Partnership (James E. Austin). 13. Leadership in a Virtual World (Deborah L. Duarte and Nancy Tennant Snyder). Index.