Year: 2013

The following blog post is excerpted from Chapter Two of my forthcoming book, The Board-Savvy CEO (Governance Edge, 2014): Nonprofit board members...

“Boards make policy decisions; the CEO and staff carry them out.  Boards decide the ‘what,’ and the CEO and staff take care of the ‘how.’  Boards...

I wish I could report that the majority of board members I’ve encountered over the years have been satisfied owners of their governing work, but,...

My last post, “Revisiting Board Ownership,” points out one of the sure signs of a truly board-savvy nonprofit CEO at work:  board members who are...

Working on my newest book, “The Board-Savvy CEO,” over the past six weeks, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about how critical it is that CEOs make...

The executive director of a relatively small nonprofit (4 full-time employees; $1.3 million budget) approached me after my presentation on...