Table of Contents

PREFACE ix

1 NO CRISIS UNANSWERED: How the Nature Conservancy Masters Challenges and Change 1

2 THE COURAGE TO LEAD: Revamping Leadership to Renew Performance 9

3 MISSION FOR LIFE: On Being Systematic, Not Opportunistic 31

4 WE CAN WORK WITH YOU: The Care and Feeding of a Dynamic Culture 53

5 WE’RE NOT IN KANSAS ANYMORE: The Road to Realizing New Ambitions 79

6 THE POWER OF “WE”: Engaging Every Constituency for Breakthrough Results 105

7 MORE THAN THE SUM OF ITS PARTS: Teaching the Organization to Work as One 129

8 MANAGE THYSELF: Leadership in a Shared-Power World 153

9 GLOBAL DYNAMO: Taking the Organization International 179

10 THE SENATE IS CALLING: Accountability and Governance in the Face of Crisis 207

EPILOGUE: Unsung Heroes 235

AUTHOR’S NOTE 239

INDEX 241

THE AUTHOR 251

About the Author

THE AUTHOR

Bill Birchard is a freelance journalist who has been writing about management and the environment for more than twenty-five years. His work has appeared in Chief Executive, CFO, Fast Company, Strategy + Business, and Tomorrow magazines. He has also written for the Appalachian Trail Conference, the Montana Department of State Lands, and the U.S. Forest Service. He is the coauthor of two previous books, Counting What Counts and The One-Minute Meditator. On the web, see www.natureskeepers.net.

Reviews

"Nature?s Keepers is a remarkable book about a remarkable organization?and a ripping yarn about groups and people who make a difference against all odds. Beyond that, it is a matchless tale of a half century of organizational growth and renewal?replete with missteps and subsequent vaults upward. Told as a series of nine fast-paced sagas of extraordinary leaders, it holds lessons of the utmost importance for every variety of reader." --Tom Peters