Succession Planning

NEW! This isn’t a Web site, but for those of you with supportive & generous boards who are interested in leadership know that the week of May 3rd, Betsy & Dick DeVos gave $22.5 million to the Kennedy Centers Arts Management Institute.  You can listen to the Kennedy Center’s  Michael Kaiser in a recent interview by visiting our own WAMC  at http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wamc/news.newsmain/article/3566/0/1645105/WAMC.Speakers.Corner/Alan.Chartock…In.Conversation.with.Michael.Kaiser.of.the.Kennedy.Center

NEW! If you haven’t visited Rosetta Thurman’s Web page and your interested in questions of leadership particularly as they pertain to women & minorities, now is your chance. http://www.rosettathurman.com

Check out this Green Paper titled “The Future of Leadership,” written last month by the Americans for the Arts Emerging Leader Council. http://blog.artsusa.org/artsblog/wp-content/uploads/greenpapers/documents/EmergingLeaders_GreenPaper.pdf

For those moments when you are presented with an ethical dilemma, know that the NonProfit Quarterly now has a column called the Nonprofit Ethicist available online at NonprofitQuarterly.org.

NEW! http://museosunite.blogspot.com. For anyone who is interested in issues of salary equity this is a great blog.

NEW! A video linkby Ann Mulchahy on leading through tough times. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/video/2009/07/15/VI2009071502025.html?referrer=emaillink

http://nysarts.typepad.com/nysartsblog/2008/09/leadership-succ.html: An online leadership and succession course posted on the New York State Arts Blog. Written for arts organizations, it provides general information on succession and leadership transition. A quick, compact way to introduce the subject to board members or staff.

http://www.getty.edu/leadership/: The web site built around the Museum Leadership Institute, the Getty Foundation’s program for leadership development.

http://www.aam-us.org/getinvolved/emp/index.cfm: The American Association of Museum’s emerging professionals page.

http://www.aaslh.org/histadmin.htm: The gateway to the American Association for State and Local History’s Seminar for Historical Administration. Now in its 49^th year, it provides a three-week boot camp for mid-career directors of historical organizations.

http://www.hks.harvard.edu/hauser/learn/onlineexeced/index.html The web page for Harvard’s Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations. Provides access to the Hauser’s online education programs, course guides and publications.

http://mgnsw.org.au/resources/volunteers/ : Information on volunteer succession planning from Australia.

http://www.philanthromedia.org/archives/2008/06/
breakthrough_nonprofit_leaders.html: A blog titled Philanthro Media by Caroline Heine discusses what makes a good nonprofit leader.

http://www.artsusa.org/networks/emerging_leaders/default.asp: An emerging leader network based at Americans for the Arts.

New! As we near internship season, an interesting take on the value of internships from the UK. http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/theatreblog/2010/feb/23/arts-unpaid-interns-exploitation

NEW! If you missed Tina Brown on NPR, you can read what she thinks and what she’s read at http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125418538.

NEW! If you’re thinking about board leadership and want to know how the other half lives, read this article from the New York Times: “Trustees Find Board Seats Are Still Luxury Items,” by Robin Pogrebin, April 2, 2010, available at www.nytimes.com.

NEW! For anyone in a new leadership position, this article talks about “Relational Capital” also known as building relationships. The article, “Building Relational Capital,” by Larry Goldstein and Patrick Sanaghan is available online at www.insidehighered.com.

NEW! “How to Develop Yourself as a Nonprofit Leader,” available online at www.bridgestar.org in the “Library.”

NEW! Klein, Kim. “Mission, Message & Damage Control,” an excerpt from Klein’s new book Reliable Fundraising in Unreliable Times, published by Jossey Bass. The excerpt is available at www.nonprofitquarterly.org.

NEW! Bremmer, Kathy. “Five Challenges Facing Nonprofit Boards,” available online at www2.guidestar.org. Be sure to note that the last of these five challenges is “Planning for Leadership Continuity.”

NEW! Linnell, Deborah. “Creative Disruptions: Sabbaticals for Capacity Building and Leadership Development in the Nonprofit Sector.” available online at www.Compasspoint.org.

Bridgespan Group. “Finding Leaders for America’s Nonprofits” available online at www.bridgespan.org.

Thurman, Rosetta. “How to Become a More Resilient Leader,” find it on Perspectives from the Pipeline at Thurman’s blog rosetta@rosettathurman.com

Taylor, Andrew. “Channeling Your Questions to Michael Kaiser,” find it on Taylor’s blog The Artful Manager.

Thurman, Rosetta. “When No Means Yes. What Generation Y Leaders Can Learn from Michelle Kwan.” Look for it at rosetta@rosettathurman.com.

Boroff, Phillip ” Museum Of Modern Art’s Lowry Earned $1.3 Million 2008-2009,” on Bloomberg.com. For commentary on the article check out Judith Dobrinski’s Real Clear Arts at http://www.artsjournal.com/realcleararts/2009/08/ceo-pay.html.

Tierney, Thomas J. “The NonProfit Sector’s Leadership Deficit: Executive Summary”, 2006. A review of nonprofits with budgets over $250,000.

“For This Guru, No Question is Too Big,” in The New York Times, Sunday, May 24, 2009.

Assessing the Chief Executive, available in print and online versions at www.boardsource.org.Kennedy Center Arts Education Leadership Kit available online in pdf at www.unescobkk.org/fileadmin/user_upload/culture/Arts_Education/Resource

Interview with Michael Kaiser available online at http://mitleadership.mit.edu/r-kaiser.php. There are additional interviews in this series titled Lessons from Leaders.

Pierce, Susan Resneck. Boards and Presidents: After the Hire. Available online at www.insidehighered.com/advice/2009

Managing in Tough Times: 7 Steps. Available at www.bridgespan.org.

Lobell, Jean R. and Paul M. Connolly, Peak Performance: Nonprofit Leaders Rate Highest in 360-Degree Reviews, Nonprofit Quarterly, December 21, 2007. Also available at nonprofitquarterly.org.

Rosenbaum, Lee, Culture Grll, Help Wanted and Desperately Needed at the National Academy, available at www.artsjournal.com. Lee Rosenbaum’s often irreverant and straight-to-the-point approach to an organization recently in the news.

Nick Tasler and Lac Di Su, The Emotional Ignorance Trap, January 16, 2009 issue of Business Week and available online at http://www.businessweek.com/managing/content/jan2009/ca20090116_399557.htm

Ruth McCambridge, An Interview With Shannon Maynard and Robert Grimm, The Nonprofit Quarterly, Fall 2008 and available online at www.nonprofitquarterly.org.

Connor, Alana. The Toughest Job You’ll Never Get, Stanford Social Innovation Review, Summer 2008.

Cornelius, Maria. Ready to Lead? Next Generation Speak Out. Annie E. Casey, 2008. Available in PDF., Hildy. Searching for a Key Employee: The 7 No-No’s of Hiring. ReSolve, Inc. 1997. Available in PDF format at www.help4nonprofits.com.

Cryer, S. (2004). Recruiting and retaining the next generation of nonprofit sector leadership: A study of the (missed) connections among nonprofit organizations, college seniors, and offices of career services. New York, NY: Initiative for Nonprofit Sector Careers. http://www.humanics.org/atf/cf/{E02C99B2- B9B8-4887-9A15-C9E973FD5616}/nextgenleadership.pdf

Filson, Brent. A Different Leadership Yardstick. Available at http://www.emergingleader.com/article5.

Freeman, G. L. (2005). Don’t fill a position; Recruit talent. New Directions for Philanthropic Fundraising, 49, 87-97.

Gottlieb, Hildy. Searching for a Key Employee: The 7 No-No’s of Hiring. ReSolve, Inc. 1997. Available in PDF format atwww.help4nonprofits.com.

Taylor, Russell Willis, Museum Leaders, A Renewable Resource?, Museum News August/September 2007

Zust, Christine. Putting Off Procrastination for Good. Available at http://www.emergingleader.com/article34.shtml. The Web site emergingleader.com contains many useful articles on the nuts and bolts of leadership.

http://www.aam-us.org/getinvolved/emp/cashin.cfm Provides information on AAM’s Emerging Museum Professional fellowships for registration and some travel expenses to its annual meeting.

http://www.leadertoleader.org/collaboration/ama/index.html: American Management Scholarship Program.

http://www.upstatehistory.org/grants/go.html: Upstate History Alliance’s GO program, providing up to $750 in travel money for New York museum employees.

NEW! The Nonprofit Leadership Transition and Development Guide by Tom Adams, published by Wiley last month.

Board Source found online at www.boardsource.org offers a variety of books on leadership and succession including the 2002 volume Chief Executive Planning by Nancy R. Axelrod.

Zandler, Rosamund Stone and Benjamin Zandler, Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life, Harvard Business School Press, 2000. Written by the conductor of the Boston Philharmonic and his therapist wife, this book “provides readers wth a deep sense of the powerful role that the notion of possiblity can play in every aspect of our lives.”

Ashby, Meredith D. and Stephen A. Miles, Leaders Talk Leadership. Heidrick and Struggles, Oxford University Press.

http://www.upstatehistory.org/services/Institute/institutes.html: Museum Institute at Sagamore, sponsored by the Upstate History Alliance.

http://www.getty.edu/leadership/: Getty Leadership Institute provides a wealth of programs for current directors, new directors, staff leaders and trustees. This Web site also has a variety of articles on museum leadership.

New! http://www.curatorialleadership.org/faq.html: A six-month program specifically for art museum curators who want to become leaders. The program includes a residency and a mentorship.