Board-CEO Relationship Archives - Page 9 of 18

Don’t Wait Until the 11th Hour To Do Succession Planning

Mar 7, 2017

Many, perhaps most, transit board members and CEOs see succession planning as a negative process that boards get involved in when their relationship...

Make Sure Your Board Does a Really Good Job of Evaluating Your Performance

Feb 7, 2017

The really board-savvy transit CEOs I’ve worked with over the years make sure that their board regularly evaluates their performance, employing a...

CDTA’s David Stackrow and Carm Basile on the Board Chair-CEO Partnership

Jan 17, 2017

I talked with Dave Stackrow, long-tenured Chair of the Board of the Capital District Transportation Authority (Albany, New...

Kick Off 2017 By Updating Your CEO Governance Strategy

Jan 3, 2017

Preparing for a recent CEO coaching session, I fine-tuned the process that I’d developed several years ago for updating the CEO’s Governance...

Surviving and Thriving With Your First Board: 3 Tips for CEO-Aspirants

Dec 16, 2016

I’ve lost count of the horror stories CEOs have told me in our one-on-one coaching sessions – about working with their first board after reaching...

Don’t Fall Into the Policy Governance Trap

Dec 1, 2016

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...

Another Insidious Foe: Assuming That Fund Raising is a Key Governing Function

Sep 9, 2016

In one of the “board-savvy CEO” workshops I conducted recently, a participant – visibly upset – challenged my assertion that raising money wasn’t a...