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Board Savvy Transit CEO Blog Archive
Proven techniques for developing rock-solid board-CEO partnerships
Beware of Passionate Ownership of Mismanaged Change
“You’re pretty obviously over your head and can’t really understand what we’re doing. Instead of getting people riled up, why don’t you get...
Nat Ford on Hitting the Ground Running As a New CEO
You’ve got to bring incredible passion to survive and thrive at the 24/7 job of heading a public transportation authority. If you don’t, there’s a...
Nashville MTA’s Innovative Budget Submission Pays Off Handsomely
This scenario will probably sound familiar to many if not most of our readers: Board members over the course of one or more lengthy work sessions...
COTA’s CEO Curtis Stitt Reflects on Chief Executive Leadership
Not long into my first in-depth conversation with Curtis Stitt, I realized that I was in the company of an uncommonly thoughtful CEO who was a...
Discussing Board Committees at APTA’s Transit Board Members Seminar on July 24
It was a distinct privilege and pleasure teaming up with Dave Stackrow in presenting our “Building a Rock-Solid Transit...
How Are You Doing as Your Board’s Chief Governing Partner?
One of the topics that Dave Stackrow (long-time Chair of the Board of New York’s Capital District Transportation Authority) and I are planning to...
The Chief of Staff Alternative To a Chief Operating Officer
The May 19 post at this blog explored the CEO-chief operating officer leadership structure, which has proved very effective in freeing up CEO time...
Peers Presenting to Peers: a Powerful Change Tool
It definitely wasn’t your traditional reporting-back session on June 6 in Cleveland. Board President George Dixon and...
Aurora Jackson: a Board-Savvy CEO at the Helm at Lane Transit District
Listening to Aurora Jackson (“A.J.”) describe how she’d gone about building a solid partnership with her new board at the Lane Transit District...
Welcome to the Board Savvy Transit CEO Blog Archive
Doug Eadie’s professional passion and his company’s mission are to empower public and nonprofit organizations by building governing board capacity and developing rock-solid board chief executive partnerships. A nationally prominent organizational developer par excellence, Doug specializes in building the governing capacity of public school districts, public transit authorities, and economic development corporations.