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Protecting the Organization
In previous blog posts clarity has been given regarding the board’s role – boards are saddled with the fiduciary duty of governing their organization. They maintain a moral, legal, and financial accountability for the organizations they lead. That translates into a laundry list of issues…
Establish Vision: A Word Picture of Success
Vision is a buzz word in the vocabulary of every leader of every organization these days. That’s important. Unless an organization has a well-defined preferred future toward which all strategic endeavors are aimed, it merely continues to execute the same thing over and over expecting different…
Monitoring Progress - The Duty of Good Governance
In spite of best efforts, it’s unrealistic for boards to “know everything” about an organization. Instead of wading through agendas packed with a minutia of detail (making decisions, crafting programs, resolving problems, critiquing projects, directing staff, supervising money,…
Value Based Leadership
Effective boards are characterized by clearly articulated values! Once identified and recorded … • Board-level subjects should pass through the grid work of values • Relationships of board members in meetings are framed by values • Discussions and decisions are guided by values…
Evaluating Board Performance
Everyone is in favor of performance reviews so long as it doesn’t involve them. Good leadership at the board level involves a rigorous review of board performance. Boards have a tendency to view executive performance as the only evaluation necessary – an erroneous conclusion. In fact, the…