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Board Savvy Transit CEO Blog Archive
Proven techniques for developing rock-solid board-CEO partnerships
The Board Savviness of CEO Candidates Critical To a Solid Board-CEO Relationship
It was, as Yogi observed, “déjà vu all over again.” After I’d spent a couple of hours talking with the CEO who’d called me to talk about problems...
Don’t Let Your Board Beat You To the Punch
A couple of years ago I got a call from the chief executive of a regional transit authority who wanted to discuss a situation that was causing him...
Vision: Your Board’s Driver of Innovation and Change
This article originally appeared at our Extraordinary CEO blog. It is just as pertinent to public transit leaders. A few months ago I sat in on a...
Don’t Wait Until the 11th Hour To Do Succession Planning
Many, perhaps most, transit board members and CEOs see succession planning as a negative process that boards get involved in when their relationship...
Two More Tips For Transit CEO-Aspirants
I opened the “Hit the Ground Running With Your New Board” webinar I recently presented for the New York Public Transportation Association by...
Make Sure Your Board Does a Really Good Job of Evaluating Your Performance
The really board-savvy transit CEOs I’ve worked with over the years make sure that their board regularly evaluates their performance, employing a...
Six Hats that Extraordinary Transit CEOs Wear
As part of my transit and nonprofit CEO coaching work over the past several years, I’ve developed six “hats” that – in my experience – really...
CDTA’s David Stackrow and Carm Basile on the Board Chair-CEO Partnership
I talked with Dave Stackrow, long-tenured Chair of the Board of the Capital District Transportation Authority (Albany, New...
CEOs Leading From Their Bully Pulpit
Over the holidays, I re-read Doris Kearns Goodwin’s The Bully Pulpit, a superb study of the Progressive Era and the administrations of Presidents...
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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.