Doug Eadie Blog
5 Critical Keys Series: #3 Cultivate an Up-Close-and-Personal Relationship With Each of Your Board Members
The following two true tales of woe feature chief executives who weren’t wearing one of their most critical CEO hats: Board Relationship...
5 Critical Keys Series: #2 Forge an Especially Close Partnership With Your Board Chair
Over the years, I’ve almost always kicked off my governance workshops for public/nonprofit chief executives at annual conferences by asking...
5 Critical Keys Series: #1 Make the Governing Function and Board a Top CEO Priority
Over my forty-some years as “governance counsel” to public and nonprofit chief executives, I’ve made a practice of conducting an in-depth interview...
For CEO Eyes Only: 5 Critical Keys to Cementing the Partnership With Your Board
Dear chief executive colleagues, you’re well advised to make building and maintaining a close, positive, productive, and enduring partnership with...
CEO Leadership on the Governance Front: Reflections on an Emerging New Model
This is how the chief executive officer of a local economic development corporation responded to my question about engaging his board in the annual...
Making the Annual Budget Preparation Process an Innovation Engine
I’ve never come across a transit CEO who wasn’t pretty much an expert in the art of annual budget preparation by the time she first takes the helm...
Blazing a Trail on the Board Engagement Front in Colorado’s Thompson School District
As my recent video interview with Board President Barbara Kruse and Superintendent Marc Schaffer indicates,...
Joanna M. Pinkerton Leads a Panel Discussion on “Building a Solid Board-CEO Partnership”
I’m pleased to share the new video interview that our colleague Joanna M. Pinkerton, President/CEO of the Central Ohio Transit Authority (COTA),...
Board Chair Development Is a Fine Art at Tupelo’s Community Development Foundation
The landscape of nonprofit/public governance has changed dramatically in recent years. In my travels around the country these days, I’m...
2 Powerful Board Development Vehicles: a Hot Topic at my 2022 NCE Workshop
“The Superintendent as Board-Developer-in-Chief” was one of the five presentation/discussion modules in the pre-conference workshop I presented on...
