“Falling fund a district slipup.” This is the headline of a front page article by Marlene Sokol in the August 8 Tampa Bay Times – about the...
Performance Oversight Isn’t the Superintendent’s Responsibility Alone
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Board Capacity Building
Board-Superintendent Collaboration on the Monitoring Front
Bob Rader, Executive Director of the Connecticut Association of Boards of Education and a founding member of this blog’s Strategic Advisory...
Volunteering And Idealism
Several years ago I was walking through the student union at the University of Illinois-Urbana in December of my senior year thinking about law...
Tending To Your Preeminent Stakeholder
This article originally appeared at another Doug Eadie & Company Blog: www.boardsavvytransitceo.com. One of the breakout groups at a...
Don’t Be Seduced By the Siren Song of “Policy Governance”
“We’re in a state of shock and can’t figure out what’s going on.” These were the first words I recall coming out of the board president’s mouth in...
Character And CEO Leadership
I was really pleased that two extraordinary CEOs serving on this blog’s CEO Advisory Committee – Jeff Finkle, President/CEO of the...
You’ve Got To Hit The Buzzer
“This feels wrong in so many ways. It feels reckless, careless and selfish. Of course we’re supposed to wait until we’re sure before we buzz. But...
What Can You Do About the Inevitable Centrifugal Force On Your Board?
As their half-day mini-retreat came to a close, the members of the board’s governance committee were feeling the kind of deep satisfaction that...
Learning From Two Extraordinary CEO Ambassadors-In-Chief
There is wide agreement in both the for-profit and nonprofit sectors that the chief executive officer must devote at least 30 percent – some say up...
Extraordinary CEOs Michael Anderson And Christopher Fox Talk About Their Own Professional Development
Don’t trust your approach to learning just because it’s worked for you in the past. Be willing to get out of the familiar, tried and true learning...