Judgment: How Winning Leaders Make Great Calls by Noel Tichy and Warren Bennis was reviewed in today's New York Times. The review got my attention with the following lines from the book:

"Winning C.E.O.’s, the authors affirm, frame and relentlessly narrate an apt story line about the company. They also pick very good people, and fire their blunders fast. Strategy matters, the authors note, but forming the team comes first.

“And crises test not snap-decision prowess but rather prior preparation. The best C.E.O.’s gear up to make a major call before it becomes necessary, or impossible, to do so. Malcolm Gladwell is wrong, they say: judgment is a process, not an intuitive blink."

This message is of course consistent with "Good to Great" about getting the right people on the bus but is perhaps more action focused. Either way, it's good for nonprofit execs to once in a while consider pop management literature to gain insights about how to improve performance. Being a nonprofit exec can be a lonely position.