I’ll be in Chicago this coming weekend, speaking to around 300 chief executives from all over the country about practical ways to build and maintain...
Four Governing Hats New-Model CEOs Wear
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Board Capacity Building
Creating Board Development Champions
It’s a fact of nonprofit organizational life that many, if not most, board members are not passionately committed to developing the capacity of...
Getting Your New Board Committees Off on the Right Foot
Whether newly created board standing committees find their sea legs early in their existence and are soon firmly established depends heavily on two...
Sue Buchholtz: Serial Social Entrepreneur
Sue Buchholtz, then President & CEO of The Spring, a nonprofit serving victims of domestic violence, made a vivid impression when I first met...
CEO Jeff Knueppel Walks the Employee Engagement Talk at SEPTA
Early in my career I experienced at close range a CEO not walking his talk. I was serving as chief of staff to the president of a large...
METRO’s Tom Lambert: Consummate Innovator-in-Chief
The podcast that Tom Lambert, President & CEO of the Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County, recorded for this blog describes METRO’s...
Emerging New CEO Governing Model
The following article is excerpted from Doug Eadie and Dave Stackrow’s forthcoming book, Becoming Your Board’s Chief Governing Partner: a Practical...
3 Quick Fixes that Won’t Corral the Rogues on Your School Board
The April 4 post at this blog, “What About ‘Rogue’ Board Members?”, talked about tried and true approaches to reining in these trouble makers who...
3 Quick Fixes That Won’t Corral the Rogues on Your Board
Last week’s post at this blog talked about tried and true approaches to reining in “rogue” board members. I defined them as “trouble makers who...
The Captain of Your Strategic Governing Team
The following article is excerpted from Doug Eadie and Dave Stackrow’s forthcoming book, Becoming Your Board’s Chief Governing Partner: a Practical...