“Nothing’s really changed, and that’s terribly disappointing.” This is what the CEO told me in a recent coaching session about the results of a...
Taking a Holistic Approach to Strengthening Your Board’s Culture
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Board Capacity Building
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...
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...
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...
Make Sure Your Board Has Its Own Governing Mission
“Does your board have a detailed governing mission?” My question was greeted by some quizzical looks in a recent “board-savvy CEO” workshop I was...
First the Cake, Only Then the Icing
A sorely disappointed superintendent and I were talking a few days ago. She, her school board, and her senior administrators had gone through an...
Another Insidious Foe To Avoid: Believing Board Committees Invite Micro-management.
One of the erroneous governance assumptions that I described in the radio interview I did for the Michigan Business Network a few days ago is...
My Hat’s Off To You – Dr. Goldman!
If we simply think about ourselves, our stress and our problems and what we have to deal with, we miss the greater view of life. It is not simply...
Insidious Foe #1: Governing Is Very Simply Policy Making
This is the first in a series of articles dealing with eight insidious foes of a solid board-CEO partnership. An insidious foe is an erroneous...
What Makes Women Such Effective Board Members?
Karen Philbrick “What makes women such effective board members?” That question came up over a glass of wine at the Women’s Transportation Seminar...