Additional Recommended Reading

Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes
Managing Transitions: Making the Most of Change

William Bridges, PhD with Susan Bridges

Whether you are an individual managing your own transition or a leader managing organizational change Bridges’ books will guide you through the three phases of transition—the ending or letting go; the neutral zone; and the new beginning—providing helpful and reassuring insights along the way.

Governance as Leadership: Reframing the Work of Nonprofit Boards 

Richard P. Chait, William P. Ryan, and Barbara E. Taylor

Chait presents three types of governance each of which is essential to building a strong governing board that is fiduciarily responsible, strategically competent, and generative in its thinking. Engaging each type when appropriate and helpful is true governance as leadership.

Seeing Systems: Unlocking the Mysteries of Organizational Life

Barry Oshry

Oshry provides us with the means to see and understand that organizations in which we live and work as groups of relationships rather than as groups of individuals. Institutions that flourish understand themselves as networks of systems that have learned how to work together in constructive and creative ways to realize a common goal.