Quotes from Leaders Like You

Leap of Reason “is the best thing on management I’ve read all summer… It helped me sharpen some of what we’re trying to achieve at my own organization, the Drucker Institute.”

“This monograph is a must-read for nonprofit leaders. It will help you stay singularly focused on your core mission and help you be effective at making a difference in people’s lives.”

“When Mario Morino talks, nonprofit leaders listen…. No more excuses. That’s the pointed message Morino threw out to his City Club audience. I’m hoping their enthusiastic applause means they’re ready to start walking the walk.”

“Passionate and provocative, this work should prove deeply relevant for any leader—government, business, or nonprofit—whose organization provides service to others. Mario’s [insights put] him at the head of a wave of thinking that is beginning to transform the social sector.”

“After Morino’s keynote, a large contingent of nonprofit executives at the Assembly meeting committed themselves to the kind of bold ’reinvention’ that he said is so urgent. The question now is, what are you as a corporate leader going to do to help?”

“After Morino’s keynote, a large contingent of nonprofit executives at the Assembly meeting committed themselves to the kind of bold ’reinvention’ that he said is so urgent. The question now is, what are you as a corporate leader going to do to help?”

“Fans rave about the book as if it’s a spine-tingling bestseller.”

“Mario Morino wrote a little book that has had a big impact… . The book is a bracing call to arms.”

“I’ve not only read the book, I’m using it in my fall class on social entrepreneurship. It’s terrific. Well organized, well argued, entirely accessible to experts, givers, and start-ups.”

“I thought your talk was one of the most important ones I’ve heard in a long time. I agree that the human services sector is facing unprecedented challenges, but I had based that primarily on the cuts in public funding that are surely coming our way and secondarily on a slow and uncertain economic recovery. The new and unsettling message in your remarks was that technology is so cheap and effective that it is creating a nation that is simultaneously highly productive and harboring a large class of permanently unemployed people. This kind of entrenched income inequality is fundamentally antithetical to everything we prize in our society.”