I’ll never forget walking into a transit authority’s board room several years ago. I found the board chair – a highly influential attorney – fuming....
Don’t Forget Your Board Chair’s Paycheck
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Year: 2018
The Miami Lighthouse Partners With the Miami Dade County Schools in the Pre-K Arena
Virginia Jacko and I tell her incredible true story in our book The Blind Visionary (www.GovernanceEdge.com): losing her eyesight while serving as...
The Miami Lighthouse: An Innovation Engine on CEO Virginia Jacko’s Watch
Virginia Jacko and I tell her incredible true story in our book The Blind Visionary (www.GovernanceEdge.com): losing her eyesight while serving as...
Don’t Allow Yourself to Get Caught in 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...
“Policy Governance:” Another Insidious Foe of a Solid Board-Superintendent Partnership
I found presenting my “Building a Rock-Solid Board-Superintendent Partnership” workshop at NSBA’s annual conference in San Antonio on April 6...
CEO Craig Richard On Beefing Up Investors’ ROI at the Tampa Hillsborough EDC
As our readers well know, serving on a governing board is only one type of volunteering in a nonprofit organization. High-level non-governing work...
King Richard III: A Case for Aggressive Image Building
And therefore since I cannot prove a lover to entertain these fair well-spoken days, I am determined to prove a villain and hate the idle pleasures...
Don’t Emulate Poor Richard III: Protect Your Authority’s Image
And therefore since I cannot prove a lover to entertain these fair well-spoken days, I am determined to prove a villain and hate the idle pleasures...
How To Make Financial Reporting a High-Powered Relationship Building and PR Tool
Let me tell you a tale of two authorities’ very different approaches to presenting financial performance reports at their monthly board meetings. ...
Harnessing the Power of Ownership: Overwhelming Approval of Highline Schools Capital Facilities Bond
I learned about the incredible power of Ownership as a force for change early in my career as a governance consultant. The school board...