When we talk about improving governance, a key question that keeps on surfacing is: How much time should the chief executive spend on governance? When I asked governance experts this question, without hesitation they say 25%! After that first response, the often pause and then add this
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 Governance Committee maybe the most important committee of the board of directors. The effectiveness of the Board depends on the Governance Committee. Let me explain. The scope of the Governance Committee is the board. Its role is to design, build, enhance, educate, shape and sustain the Board
Read more →Architecture is concerned with the practice of designing and building structures that are unified and coherent. Since the nonprofit organization could be seen as a structure just as a building is a structure, the specific practice of designing and building organizations could be seen to as governance architecture.
Read more →When I was in Orlando in December attending the Board Source Governance Forum, the Orlando Sentinel featured an exclusive front page story entitled Blood-bank shake-up. The article began by saying, “With a state Senate investigation of its practices heating up, Metro Orlando’s largest blood center said Friday
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