“But won’t I be inviting my board members into my business and leaving myself open to the kind of micro-management that can really disrupt my work?”...
Turning Board Evaluation of the CEO Into a More Powerful Relationship Building Tool
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Don’t Forget Your Board Chair’s Paycheck
I’ll never forget walking into a transit authority’s board room several years ago. I found the board chair – a highly influential attorney – fuming....
Don’t Allow Yourself to Get Caught in the “Policy Governance” Trap
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...
Board-Savvy CEOs Avoid Falling Into 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...
Time to Update and Fine-Tune Your CEO Leadership Resolutions
There’s wide agreement in the public transit sector that one of the preeminent vehicles for building and maintaining a close, productive, 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...
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...
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...
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...
Not Much Glamour – But This Apparent Sow’s Ear Is Really a Silk Purse
“That doesn’t really sound very CEO-like” That was the initial reaction of a transit GM in our coaching session a couple of years ago when I...