Mastering the Management Buckets: 20 Critical Competencies for Leading Your Business or Nonprofit

In the most practical, humorous and fast-moving chapters you’ve ever read on business and non-profit leadership and management, this in-the-trenches management expert presents his 20 Management Buckets System for understanding and organizing your important mission. “When you don’t know what you don’t know,” says John Pearson (with 30 years of CEO experience), “the Law of Unintended Consequences will derail you every time.” Based on Pearson’s 48-hour Management Buckets Workshop Experience, Mastering the Management Buckets offers detailed implementation tools, including 99 practical takeaways that a leader could implement immediately, plus nine management breakthrough strategies. Learn how The People Bucket, The Donor Bucket, The Hoopla Bucket, The Customer Bucket and others can make or break your organization. For managers and leaders to use on their own, in weekly staff meetings, mentoring young leaders and managers and a host of other ways.

JOHN PEARSON, a management and board governance consultant, served 30 years as a nonprofit CEO, including 25 years as CEO of three national associations: Christian Management Association (now Christian Leadership Alliance), Willow Creek Association, and Christian Camp and Conference Association. He is co-author, with ECFA President Dan Busby, of "Lessons from the Nonprofit Boardroom" and "Lessons From the Church Boardroom." John is also the author of "Mastering the Management Buckets: 20 Critical Competencies for Leading Your Business or Nonprofit" and "Mastering the Management Buckets Workbook." He is the co-author of "Marketing Your Ministry: Ten Critical Principles" with Dr. Robert Hisrich. As the editor and publisher of "Your Weekly Staff Meeting," a complimentary eNewsletter that includes a book review and a "management buckets" commentary every issue, John has reviewed more than 400 leadership and management books since 2006. He is also the editorial coordinator for the "ECFA Governance Toolbox Series." His consulting firm, John Pearson Associates, Inc., is based in San Clemente, Calif.