Principles of Practice and Tools of the Trade

There are many books about the practical nuts and bolts of leading and managing an organization such as creating effective boards and governance systems, managing finances and human resources, planning and working strategically, ways of organizing and running management teams and so on. One that I turned to when we set up Forum for the Future was Mike Hudson’s excellent Managing without Profit (1995). From the business perspective (but with lots of transferability to public or not-for-profit enterprises) I am also a fan of Charles Handy and the late Peter Drucker (see Bibliography). They both have shone lights of common sense and wise reflection down several decades of gobbledygook.