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There are many, many books, blogs, apps, hacks, and more designed to boost your productivity and hone your time-management skills. This book is unique because it's designed for leaders in mission-driven settings who do their own work and manage the work of others. By mission driven, I simply mean anyone whose work ultimately serves the greater good. It doesn't have to be limited to nonprofit work, either. A mission-driven leader could be the person who oversees a community theater group, a Sunday school director, a chief financial officer of a housing organization, or a school principal.

So why is mission-driven work so different? In my work coaching leaders, I've seen mission-driven leaders face these specific challenges:

• The problems we are trying to eliminate (homelessness, poverty, and environmental concerns, just to name a few) or create solutions and innovations for are enormous, urgent, and critical.

• Our work is never ending. Resources are limited. We are often both managers and makers.

• Our goals can and should be ambitious. The volume of our work is intense.

• The emotional toll of our work cannot be understated. In any given week, leaders face tough conversations about apartment evictions, breaking up fights between students, or big layoffs.

It is no wonder that many mission-driven leaders are overwhelmed and ineffective and eventually burn out.