Domain 1

Strategic Management

(16%–18% of the exam)

Recommended Reading

  • ASAE Handbook of Professional Practices in Association Management, 3rd ed., chapters 1–13, 18, 21.
  • Association Law Handbook, 5th ed., chapters 1, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 24–25, 61, 67–68, 78–94.
  • How to Read Nonprofit Financial Statements, chapters 1–7.
  • The Jossey-Bass Handbook of Nonprofit Leadership and Management, 3rd ed., chapters 1–4, 8–12, 15–18, 20, 22.

Additional Reading

  • 7 Measures of Success: What Remarkable Associations Do That Others Don't (Washington, DC: Association Management Press, 2012).
  • Coerver, Harrison, and Mary Byers, Race for Relevance: 5 Radical Changes for Associations (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2013).
  • Coerver, Harrison, and Mary Byers, Road to Relevance: ...

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