In the most practical, humorous, and fast-moving chapters you've ever read on business and nonprofit 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, "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.

John Pearson is president of the management consulting company John Pearson Associates, Inc. With thirty years of CEO experience, he served twenty-five years leading three associations, including the Christian Management Association, Willow Creek Association, and Christian Camp and Conference Association. In addition to consulting with both nonprofit and for-profit clients, he conducts frequent training workshops on his Management Buckets program and on nonprofit board governance. He is the coauthor of Marketing Your Ministry and publishes a weekly eNewsletter, Your Weekly Staff Meeting.