Our last blog post described a dramatic step the Board of the Birmingham-Jefferson County Transit Authority (BJCTA) took just four days before the...
Month: January 2015
Two Seasoned Leaders On Board Engagement
In Governing at the Top (https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781475807158) I describe a phenomenon that I’m sure many superintendents have observed over the...
BJCTA Takes a Big Step Toward a Solid Board-CEO Partnership
Ann August, Executive Director (CEO) of the Birmingham-Jefferson County Transit Authority (BJCTA), and several of her top lieutenants were pretty...
Averting Needless and Costly Partings of the Ways
The last post at boardsavvysuperintendent.com features an outstanding K-12 leader, MaryEllen Elia, superintendent of the Hillsborough County Schools...
Hillsborough’s MaryEllen Elia on the Board-Superintendent Partnership
Looking over columns from The American School Board Journal early this afternoon, I came across one that appeared in May 2009, “Governance: A...
Ich Bin Ein Berliner
“I am a Berliner,” said President John F. Kennedy on June 26, 1963, speaking to an estimated 450,000 West Berliners from a platform erected on the...
Board Development By Design
The August 22, 2014 issue of APTA’s Passenger Transport includes a piece I wrote for the Commentary section, “Board Development by Design: A...
The Importance of Smiling at Fear
Last weekend I listened to a four-CD program by an American Buddhist nun, Pema Chodron. Titled “Smile at Fear,” the program, which was...
Craft Your Own CEO Mission Statement
An article in the January 6 issue of the New York Times, “In With the New Mission Statement,” opens with this bit of advice: “Forget the New...
Caveat Emptor
As you know, the Latin expression “caveat emptor” means “Let the buyer beware.” This is certainly sound advice in the field of nonprofit governance,...