Doug Eadie Blog
Using the CEO Evaluation Process to Help Cement Your Partnership With the Board
As always, I learned as much as I taught from the economic development chief executives participating in the workshop I presented on February 10 at...
Making Superintendent Evaluation a Relationship Adhesive
As always, I learned as much as I taught from the superintendents participating in the preconference workshop I presented on February 12 at AASA’s...
CEO Evaluation: a Potentially Powerful Relationship Adhesive
At a daylong “High-Impact Governing Work Session” last fall, the board, executive director/CEO and executive team of Access Services in Los Angeles...
High-Level Volunteering at the Tampa Hillsborough EDC Isn’t Confined to Governing
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...
Bake Your Board Cake First, Then Worry About the Icing
A sorely disappointed superintendent and I were talking a couple of months ago. She, her school board, and her senior administrators had gone...
Implementing is a Far Cry From Authorizing in the K-12 Governance Business
One of the more egregious errors I made early in my career as a K-12 governance consultant and coach was allowing myself to be pressured into...
The Engine Powering Your Transit Authority’s Governing Machine
Over the years I’ve often heard transit boards described as “policy-making bodies,” which doesn’t begin to convey the complexity of governing work. ...
Reining in the Rogues
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HART’s Ben Limmer: Career Planner Extraordinaire
The following post originally appeared at this blog in July 2019. In light of the tremendous positive response to the post, including the podcast...
Beware of the Emperor’s New Clothes Syndrome
In his December 2, 2019 post, "Deep Connection," blogger Seth Godin (sethgodin.com) writes that when "someone tells you what you need to hear,...