Tough cookies
Subtitle: leadership lessons from 100 years of the Girl Scouts
By: Kathy Cloninger with Fiona Soltes
Contributors: Soltes, Fiona
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Wiley
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Hoboken, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 181
ISBN-13: 9781118000045
Subjects: Nonprofit organizations; Girl Scouts of the United States of America; Management; Administration; History
Description: "Full of inspired wisdom, Tough Cookies describes the Girl Scouts' transformative journey to become and integrated, unified movement for girls. Learn how this massive non-profit addressed its most pressing challenges, including how to rebrand itself not just as a gaggle of cute girls selling cookies and camping, but as the most important organization for girl culture; create the world's best personal leadership development model for girls; provide efficient and effective governance to deliver scouting to girls; make it easier for volunteers to lead troops; attract donors; remain democratic and mission-focused throughout the merger process. ... Discover how lessons from Girl Scouts of the USA can help your organization achieve such lasting success"--Dust jacket.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Leadership out of balance; title: How I got here; title: Talk less, listen more; title: A logical conclusion; title: Facing the brutal truths; title: Trust me, this is going to work; title: What to keep, and what to let go; title: Oh, yeah? Prove it!