Leadership Dilemmas and Challenges: Reflections and Advice

About the Book

Leadership Dilemmas and Challenges: Reflections and Advice: Or “Why I Do That?” is a collection of personal, interconnected essays intended to inform and inspire current and future practitioners in the nonprofit or public-sector space. Part insightful guidance, part humorous memoir, author Michael Zisser pulls from more than thirty years’ experience managing major New York City–based organizations, as well as several decades teaching graduate-level courses in planning, public administration, and social work, to provide practical, honest advice to today’s leaders and managers in the nonprofit and public sectors.

About the Author

Michael Zisser served as Chief Executive Officer for a major non-profit organization in New York City for three decades and held leadership positions on several Boards and Commissions. Previously, he was a professor and chairman of a graduate urban planning program at a prominent New York institution. He continues to teach graduate level management and policy courses, and has written about strategic planning, mergers in the non-profit sector, and the critical challenges and dilemmas of successful leadership. He is inspired, in his writing, first by his family, followed by a commitment to issues of social justice.