“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...
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Extraordinary CEO Blog Archive
Taking Economic and Community Development Leadership to the Next Level
Enriching ACCE Board Composition on CEO Sheree Anne Kelly’s Watch
As our readers know, governing is essentially a people business. Far from being an abstract concept, governing boards are essentially the people...
Leveraging a Rich Innovation Asset: Your Board
During our discussion of board engagement in strategic innovation in a CEO workshop I conducted recently, four or five participants lamented that...
The Zoom Muzzle Syndrome Redux
Since writing the August 6 post some four months ago I’ve learned much more about Zoom as a video conferencing resource. For example, I know from...
The Change Investment Portfolio: A Practical Tool For Transformational Change Leaders
The November 6 post at this blog features JJ Harris, President of the Clay County Economic Development Corporation, as a prime example of a...
Clay County EDC’s JJ Harris: A Transformational Change Leader In Action
JJ Harris, President of the Clay County Economic Development Corporation in northeastern Florida and a member of this blog’s CEO Advisory Committee,...
Crises Demand Energizers-in-Chief at All Levels
This post first appeared in March 2020 as the pandemic still afflicting our nation was in its early stages. In light of the tremendous positive...
Hitting the Ground Running With Your New Board: The Board Chair-CEO Partnership
In the video interview featured in last week’s post at this blog, Jeff Finkle and Craig Richard astutely observe that one of the key building blocks...
Jeff Finkle and Craig Richard on Hitting the Ground Running With Your New Board
Our readers are no doubt aware of our recent decision to focus our Extraordinary CEO blog on leadership in the economic and...
What, Me Afraid of a Big Board?
A little over four years ago, Jeff Finkle, President of the International Economic Development Council, and Virginia Jacko,...
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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.