Over the years, a basically passive-reactive approach to governing – a model of sorts – has been passed down and has predominated – and probably...
Beware of the Passive-Reactive Board
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Board-CEO Relationship
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...
Get Your Board-CEO Retreat Right
Retreats have become a popular vehicle for involving transit board members, their CEOs, and executives in accomplishing high-impact governing work...
Cementing the Partnership With Your Board
This post has been adapted from an article that originally appeared in the Spring 2018 edition of the Association Forum’s “CEOnly Newsletter.” It...
Cementing the Partnership With Your Board
The following article appeared in the Spring 2018 edition of the Association Forum's "CEOnly Newsletter." It is reprinted here with the Forum's...
Turning Board Evaluation of the CEO Into a More Powerful Relationship Building Tool
“But won’t I be inviting my board members into my business and leaving myself open to the kind of micro-management that can really disrupt my work?”...
Three Seasoned, Board-Savvy Leaders Talk About the Board Chair-CEO Partnership
I don’t know three more board-savvy nonprofit leaders than Ronnie Bryant, President & CEO of the Charlotte Regional...
What Are You Paying Your Board Chair?
A few years ago, I was chatting over lunch with the CEO of a national association about her incoming board chair. She was feeling pretty...
Don’t Forget Your Board Chair’s Paycheck
I’ll never forget walking into a transit authority’s board room several years ago. I found the board chair – a highly influential attorney – fuming....
Don’t Allow Yourself to Get Caught in the “Policy Governance” Trap
A year or so ago, I got a call from a transit CEO desperate for help. The year before, he explained, his board had adopted a “policy governance...