Tag: nonprofit board leadership
Emerging New CEO Governing Model
The following article is excerpted from Doug Eadie and Dave Stackrow’s forthcoming book, Becoming Your Board’s Chief Governing Partner: a Practical Guidebook for Transit CEOs and CEO-aspirants.
In our travels around the country these days, we see an increasing number of new-style public and nonprofit sector chief executives, including many in the transit industry, who you won’t find astride the fire wall vigilantly guarding against incursions by micro-managing board members. This emerging new model of CEO leadership in the governing arena, which has no doubt emerged in reaction to the bankruptcy of the traditional view, sees the chief executive … Read the rest
Make Sure Your Board Has Its Own Governing Mission
“Does your board have a detailed governing mission?” My question was greeted by some quizzical looks in a recent “board-savvy CEO” workshop I was conducting for chief executives and CEO-aspirants. One participant pointed out that her transportation authority regularly updated its mission – with active board involvement – and asked if that was what I was talking about. My response: “No, I mean your board’s unique governing mission, not your authority’s overall mission.” I went on to explain that the board, like every other major organizational unit in your authority, needs its own mission describing what it’s responsible for.
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