And therefore since I cannot prove a lover to entertain these fair well-spoken days, I am determined to prove a villain and hate the idle pleasures...
A Case For Aggressive Image Building
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Board Savvy Transit CEO Blog Archive
Proven techniques for developing rock-solid board-CEO partnerships
Fear: the Insidious Foe of Positive Organizational Change
This post originally appeared at www.extraordinaryceo.com. Since it applies to all nonprofit and public organizations, I'm re-posting it here. My...
Greenlight Pinellas: A Pothole on the Road to Ultimate Success
Residents of Pinellas County, Florida who, like me, are strong supporters of expanding public transportation options in this increasingly gridlocked...
There’s a Right Way to Involve Your Board in Governance Self-Assessment
Our previous post, “Don’t Get Caught in the Board Self-Assessment Trap,” tells the true story of a GM who’d been talked into having his board...
Don’t Get Caught In the Board Self-Assessment Trap
I received an email promo last week from a national nonprofit ballyhooing its board self-assessment “tool,” which reminded me of a true story that...
Bringing New Board Member On Board – The Right Way
The GM, along with his top five executives, made sure the two incoming board members, neither of whom had been involved with public transportation...
What’s In Your CEO Professional Growth Portfolio?
The great majority of the public transportation CEOs I’ve worked with over the years have been conscientious self-improvers – devouring articles and...
Bagging Three Big Feathered Friends
Let me tell you a tale of two authorities’ very different approaches to presenting financial performance reports at their monthly board meetings. ...
Stakeholders as Partners in Innovation: Real-Life Cases
Stakeholders have loomed large in the last couple of articles posted at this blog. “The Dallas Streetcar: Intergovernmental Collaboration At Work”...
Tending To Your Preeminent Stakeholder
One of the breakout groups at a board-CEO/GM retreat I recently facilitated had a great time going through what I call the “stakeholder relationship...
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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.