Play to Win: The Nonprofit Guide to Competitive Strategy

By David La Piana

Book Overview

Play to Win offers nonprofit leaders the help they need to develop their organization's unique competitive advantages and to use the power of competitive strategies to build their organization's capacity for advancing its mission. This book offers a clear description of competition and discusses its practical, ethical, and political ramifications within the nonprofit sector. It demonstrates how, by being a more effective competitor, a nonprofit can enhance its chances for both programmatic and financial success. Play to Win is filled with practical tools for assessing a nonprofit's position in the marketplace and developing winning competitive strategies. Read a Charity Chanel review: http: //charitychannel.com/publish/templates/?a=4864&z=25 2006 Terry McAdam Award Honorable Mention: http: //www.allianceonline.org/publications/mcadam06.page

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0787968137
• ISBN13: 9780787968137
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Length: 213 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.2" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

How to develop winning competitive strategies

Play To Win: The Nonprofit Guide To Competitive Strategy describes the value of using competition in furthering the mission of a nonprofit organization. While not denigrating the advantages of collaborative strategies, Play to Win gives the reader useful tools for mining the benefits of a competitive stance, including means to assess a nonprofit's position in the marketplace, how to develop winning competitive strategies, step-by-step directions for leaders to effectively compete for limited resources, and much more. Written by the founder and senior manager La Piana Associates, a consulting firm specializing in problems and strategies unique to nonprofit organizations, Play To Win is highly recommended reading for the leadership of any nonprofit determined to stand out from the crowd.