Effective Board Chairs Need Two Agendas Effective Board Chairs need two agendas! Let me explain. The first agenda is the Board Meeting Agenda. The board of directors generally elects a colleague into the role of Board Chair believing that s/he can actually lead a board meeting
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Is the responsibility of the Board of Directors to focus on Ends while relegating the Means to Management? Is this a distinction that will finally solve the age old problem captured in these two questions: What is the scope of the board? and What is the scope
Read more →Is governance a board of directors activity or is it an operating system that includes the entire organization? Yes, this question was the title of my January 20th post. I posed this question on a LinkedIn discussion group called the Nonprofit Board Forum to see what they
Read more →Every nonprofit organization has a governance system! More accurately, a governance operating system. Just as Windows 7 powers most PCs and Snow Leopard powers Macs, the governance operating system powers the nonprofit organization! The Malcolm Baldrige Performance Excellence Program defines governance as “…the system of management and
Read more →The core question that faces the leaders of all nonprofit organizations is this: What is more important — Mission or Performance? This seems like a simple question. However, when you begin to seek the answer, you realize that this is a complex question. No matter choice you
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