Books by Frank Julie:
The Art of Leadership and Management on the Ground:
A practical guide for leaders and managers in the NGO sector to build sustainable organisations for permanent social change! With foreword by Professor Linda Cooper – Senior Lecturer, Centre for Higher Education and Development (CHED) University of Cape Town and comments and accompanying questions by James Taylor, executive director at the Community Development Resource Association (CDRA).
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Extract from the book:
“To meet the demands of a successful transformation in any organisation, community or society, every leader must be prepared to undergo an internal transformation, a painful process cleansing a leader from the contamination of an unconscious, unthinking, gender-, race-, and rank blind society. Like steel forged in the white heat burning the impurities, so a leader is moulded on the anvil of those invisible social forces that must lead to change - human change, a change that must lead those at the margins to have more access to resources and power over choices. The leader of today must be prepared to sit in the fire of transformation without getting burned!” Frank Julie
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Extract from the book:
“To meet the demands of a successful transformation in any organisation, community or society, every leader must be prepared to undergo an internal transformation, a painful process cleansing a leader from the contamination of an unconscious, unthinking, gender-, race-, and rank blind society. Like steel forged in the white heat burning the impurities, so a leader is moulded on the anvil of those invisible social forces that must lead to change - human change, a change that must lead those at the margins to have more access to resources and power over choices. The leader of today must be prepared to sit in the fire of transformation without getting burned!” Frank Julie
Frank Julie's thesis:
The NGO Crisis, Leadership Discontinuity and Learning over 3 Historical Periods in South Africa.
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- Key research findings.
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The Roots of the NGO Crisis in South Africa:
In this historical analysis Frank Julie postulates that the roots of the current NGO crisis in South Africa can be located in the shifts in leadership and modes of learning that have occurred within three historical periods. These shifts were accompanied by broader shifts in the power relations in South Africa post 1994 and the witting or unwitting collusion of sections of the NGO leadership to a discourse that was detrimental to the interest of the poor and marginalized. Julie argues that the entry of new leadership generations into the NGO sector and how knowledge, skills and experiences were produced and transferred in the second and third historical periods facilitated this collusion.
“I really like what you are saying, what you do with the issue, I think it’s a great study and well worth the reading by anyone in leadership positions in South Africa. Great work!
(Allan Kaplan: Co-director of Proteus Initiative and Author of Development Practitioners and Social Process: Artists of the Invisible)
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“I really like what you are saying, what you do with the issue, I think it’s a great study and well worth the reading by anyone in leadership positions in South Africa. Great work!
(Allan Kaplan: Co-director of Proteus Initiative and Author of Development Practitioners and Social Process: Artists of the Invisible)
Click here to download a copy.
