What Social-Sector Leaders Need to Succeed

McKinsey & Co. surveyed nearly 200 social-sector CEOs and other top managers leading nonprofit organizations, foundations, social enterprises and impact-investing funds. It asked these leaders to identify the critical attributes for leadership success in their sector and then rate the performance of leaders in the field against each attribute. Across every category — including balancing innovation with implementation, building top executive teams and collaborating to achieve outcomes — survey respondents found themselves, and their peers, to be deficient.