Board Capacity Building

I’d just finished describing why standing committees were the ideal vehicle for a CEO to work with in mapping out and fine-tuning processes for...

The following blog post is excerpted from Chapter Two of my forthcoming book, The Board-Savvy CEO (Governance Edge, 2014): Nonprofit board members...

“Boards make policy decisions; the CEO and staff carry them out.  Boards decide the ‘what,’ and the CEO and staff take care of the ‘how.’  Boards...

I wish I could report that the majority of board members I’ve encountered over the years have been satisfied owners of their governing work, but,...

My last post, “Revisiting Board Ownership,” points out one of the sure signs of a truly board-savvy nonprofit CEO at work:  board members who are...

Working on my newest book, “The Board-Savvy CEO,” over the past six weeks, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about how critical it is that CEOs make...

The executive director of a relatively small nonprofit (4 full-time employees; $1.3 million budget) approached me after my presentation on...

Earlier this week in Chicago I was privileged to join Sandi Burke, Immediate Past Board Chair, and Chuck Macfarlane, President & CEO, of the...

Virginia Jacko, President & CEO of the Miami Lighthouse for the Blind, is a truly outstanding nonprofit chief executive.  She’s also blind, by...

Imagine that you’re the CEO of a large public corporation, and one day you learn that your whole board has been “fired” and replaced by all new...