One the most important roles of the Board of Directors is the selection of a Chief Executive, according to BoardSource. It is the Chief Executive that acts in the intersection between governance and the organization. The Chief Executive acts on behalf of the board to ensure that
Read more →The focus of governance improvement activities for the past 10 years or so has been on board structure. According to John Combs the President of the Center for Healthcare Governance board effectiveness , there is a shift in thinking about how to enable boards to be more
Read more →One of the sessions for College Presidents and Trustees at the 2010 Council of Christian Colleges and Universities Leadership Forum in Atlanta was entitled: Making sure that the main thing stays the main thing. Well, what is the main thing? For colleges and universities, and it has
Read more →Organizations need to be fed to be healthy and sustainable. If organizations are not fed, they will starve. Authors Ann Gregory and Don Howard, in their article The Nonprofit Starvation Cycle, state that organizations must have proper care and feeding if they are to be successful in
Read more →The Board of Directors has two fundamental tasks as the governing authority of the nonprofit organization. It is to ensure the mission and oversee organizational performance. Much has been written in the nonprofit literature about how these tasks are two be carried out. I offer two simple
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