I’ve lost count of the horror stories CEOs have told me in our one-on-one coaching sessions – about working with their first board after reaching...
Surviving and Thriving With Your First Board: 3 Tips for CEO-Aspirants
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Year: 2016
Association Forum CEO Michelle Mason on Developing Her Board’s Composition
Extraordinary nonprofit chief executives are extraordinarily board-savvy, meaning that among other things they take accountability for playing the...
Large-Scale Innovation on the Learning Front in the Wilder (Idaho) Schools
Security and comfort are two of the most insidious siren songs drawing us away from important change. Thinking about my own...
Don’t Fall Into the Policy Governance Trap
A year or so ago, I got a call from a transit CEO desperate for help. The year before, he explained, his board had adopted a “policy governance...
IEDC President & CEO Jeff Finkle on Learning From Mistakes
The last article posted at this blog, “So Tell Us About Your Failures,” makes the point that all CEOs fail at one time or another, but truly...
Superintendents Michael Lubelfeld and Nicholas Polyak Talk About “The Unlearning Leader”
In today’s always changing environment – technologically, culturally, demographically, etc. – an organization’s capacity to...
So Tell Us About Your Failures
Years ago I was working as a coach to a CEO search committee that was developing the questionnaire they’d be using in interviewing candidates for...
So Tell Us About Your Failures
Years ago I was working as a coach to a CEO search committee that was developing the questionnaire they’d be using in interviewing candidates for...
Your Values Statement: More Than Meets the Eye
You’ll recall that the last article posted at this blog, “The Governing Gold Standard,” describes a modern approach to developing innovation...
Learning – and Owning – By Doing: the MTA and STARS Experience
Ed Benning has bitten off a major chief executive leadership chunk: not only serving as full-time General Manager/CEO of the Mass Transportation...