“What can we do about rogue board members?” I’ve heard this question countless times over the years in governance workshops I’ve presented at APTA...
Successfully Reining in Rogue Board Members
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Board Capacity Building
Don’t Let Silo Committees Trap You and Your Board Members
I spent a couple of hours with Board and Executive Team members of the Chatham Area Transit Authority (CAT, headquartered in Savannah, Georgia) in a...
Board-Savvy Superintendents Use Ritual as a Board Team Building Tool
“The prescribed form or order of conducting a religious or solemn ceremony.” “A ceremonial act or a series of such acts.” These are two of the...
COTA’s Board Chair and CEO Talk About Breaking the Traditional CEO Mold
Traditionally, at the top of the list of qualifications public transit boards specify when recruiting candidates for the CEO position is in-depth...
Caveat Emptor: an Axiom All Really Board-Savvy CEOs Take to Heart
To judge from participants’ questions during and after the workshop that I presented on September 25 at the American Public Transportation...
What About “Rogue” Board Members?
We were talking about building school board self-management capacity at the preconference workshop I presented at the NSBA National Conference a...
Thoughts on True Humility and Senator John McCain
Thinking about Senator John McCain this morning – along with millions of my fellow Americans and admirers around the world – reminded me of the...
Turning Your Board Members Into a Cohesive Governing Team: Part 2
As I noted in the July 25 post at this blog, turning nonprofit boards into really cohesive governing teams is no piece of cake, primarily because of...
Turning Your Board Members Into a Cohesive Governing Team: Part 1
Teamwork in the abstract is neither here nor there for nonprofit and public boards. The only serious reason for developing your board’s teamwork is...
Get Your Board-CEO Retreat Right
Retreats have become a popular vehicle for involving nonprofit board members, their CEOs, and executives in accomplishing high-impact governing work...