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Mastering The Management Buckets: 20 Critical Competencies for Leading Your Business or Non-profit Hardcover – May 1, 2008

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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.

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May 1, 2008
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0830745947
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978-0830745944
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You've probably observed that lots of CEOs practice "Management by Bestseller." They hiccup from one hot business book to the next--leaving their loyal, but confused team members wondering where the target is. So the foundational idea behind Mastering the Management Buckets is to think of leadership and management as a three-legged stool: Cause, Community and Corporation. The 20 buckets (core competencies) fit under one of those arenas--and wise leaders know that you need a balanced approach of all three legs.

Why 20 buckets/core competencies? Leadership is complex; often chaotic. We all grow weary of "five ways to do this" and "seven steps to XYZ." Nonsense. Life is much more messy. That's why no one person can master all 20 core competencies, but a team can and should. While the book is faith-based (I'm a follower of Jesus), it's not preachy.

Enjoy your dip into the buckets.

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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 any leader can 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.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Regal; 1st edition (May 1, 2008)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 284 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0830745947
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0830745944
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 18 years and up
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.13 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.88 x 9 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #1,249,822 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #891 in Nonprofit Organizations & Charities (Books)
- #12,190 in Business Management (Books)
- #13,882 in Leadership & Motivation

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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 (now Global Leadership Network), and Christian Camp and Conference Association. He is co-author, with ECFA President Dan Busby, of “Lessons from the Nonprofit Boardroom,” "More Lessons From the Nonprofit Boardroom," "ECFA Tools and Templates for Effective Board Governance," 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 was also the editorial coordinator for the "ECFA Governance Toolbox Series." His consulting firm, John Pearson Associates, Inc., is based in San Clemente, Calif. His 2021 book, with Jason Pearson, was published in May 2021, "Mastering Mistake Making: My 25 Memorable Mistakes—and What I Learned (10 Minutes for Lifelong Learning Workbook)."

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Valerie M. Rangel

Excellent Read

Reviewed in the United States on August 10, 2020

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It will take time to implement the practical steps in this book but sincerely appreciate the content covered. Must Read!

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Daryl McCarthy

Help for leaders and managers

Reviewed in the United States on June 20, 2010

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Pearson writes from a lifetime of experience in managing and consulting with many kinds of ministries. This book is practical, easy-to-read and filled with helpful principles and specific actions to help leaders and managers of ministries. For experienced leaders there are probably not many new insights here, but Pearson has a winsome way of reminding us of things we have neglected or forgotten or even, have done badly. I especially appreciate his emphasis that ministries do not have to be just like businesses. There is a difference.

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Brandon

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Reviewed in the United States on May 31, 2017

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Megan & Brendan

Practical and Insightful

Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2013

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Unlike the run of the mill leadership or management text that is either dry or light on real insight, Pearson engages you and provides specific action steps for each key task/role of the leader. This isn't a read once book but one you will want to use as reference again and again and buy for others as well.

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Reviewed in the United States on September 13, 2014

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best organization book I've read

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Uncle Morris

Disorganized, random happy ideas, not a serious management book

Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2010

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OK, I'm not Christian. But I bought this book as a leader of a religious non-profit, figuring that I could translate whatever Christian ideas expressed in it into my own faith's terms, and that the management ideas would shine through.

Regrettably, I found this to be an almost random collection of happy irrelevant ideas, full of references to go buy other people's books if you really want to learn anything. I should have known from the title and the structure of this book: a bucket is a catch-all for whatever falls into it. This book comes up with 20 of them, with a few random ideas in each.

I can't deny how ecstatic the other reviewers have been, and I'm glad the book worked for them. But there really isn't very much content in this book to guide either a new or experienced leader of a religious non-profit, and even less a business.

One example: "Every minute the meeting facilitator invests in preparation ... reduces, on average, the actual meeting time by 25 percent" (p. 266). Swell; invest 4 minutes in preparing, and you can cancel the meeting altogether. Somehow, that doesn't cut it as serious management advice.

I'll save your reading time: don't bother with this book.

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Michael Stallard

Comprehensive set of best ideas and practices

Reviewed in the United States on July 4, 2008

After starting to read this book my reaction was WOW! I've never seen so many practical ideas for leaders in one book. John Pearson draws on a vast array of sources that he came across over his long career including time he spent with Peter Drucker. The book describes 20 critical competencies are broad and include topics you don't usually find in books on leadership such as systems, board, budget, operations and crisis.

The competencies are what Pearson calls "management buckets." Some people will like this description, others may be tempted to dismiss the bucket metaphor as lite. That would be a mistake. The book is jam-packed with substantive ideas and insights. I was glad to see that Pearson covers the "hard" issues such as being results oriented to the "soft" issues such as caring for employees. I'm recommending this book to leaders as one to take their leadership team through. It will surely stimulate a list of actions that will benefit their team and organization.

The book does have a lot of references to Christianity because John is a Christian and he has primarily worked for and with Christian organizations. If you work for a Christian organization, this is a must read. If not, or if you are not a Christian, you will still benefit from the ideas and practices described in the book. Because social sector organizations rely so much on volunteers they have learned much about motivating them and for-profit organizations can learn a lot from effective social sector leaders such as Pearson.

I also want to point out that the book is well-organized into short sections so it's ideal for most leaders who prefer bite-sized readings. Too many books these days fail to include end notes and I was glad to see that Pearson provided extensive endnotes that will allow readers to dig even deeper into the many sources he drew upon to write the book.

Bottom line: I highly recommend this book!

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Ron Mattocks

Buckets of Ideas

Reviewed in the United States on June 14, 2008

Only John Pearson could pour the insights gleaned from twenty five years in chief executive roles at three different associations into twenty management buckets: six buckets focused on The Cause, seven buckets for The Community, and seven buckets for The Corporation. The language of The Cause is purpose driven. The language of the Community is warm affirmation. The language of The Corporation focuses on operations, systems and fiduciary responsibilities.
Chapter by chapter each of Pearson's twenty buckets gets filled with "strategic balls" that leaders can utilize to enhance their management of each bucket theme. The chapters are filled with anecdotes about real life experiences in the workplace.
My favorite is The Hoopla! Bucket. Spring-boarding from Dennis Bakke's Joy at Work, Pearson articulates a value proposition for Hoopla as a way to relieve stress and build team spirit in the workplace. This is a critical concept for the great number of nonprofit organizations that have squeezed the pennies so tightly that they have made their workplaces blatantly undesirable and unhealthy.
Mastering the Management Buckets is a straightforward refresher course in critical competencies critical for successful leadership in organizations of all kinds. The book serves it up straight, consistent with Pearson's persona as a straight shooting leader, a man of integrity and a follower of Jesus. If you're looking for ways to enhance your management skills, built on a Biblical platform that views leadership as a spiritual exercise, this book is for you.

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