Book description
A new framework for helping nonprofit organizations maximize the effectiveness of their boards.
Written by noted consultants and researchers attuned to the needs of practitioners, Governance as Leadership redefines nonprofit governance. It provides a powerful framework for a new covenant between trustees and executives: more macrogovernance in exchange for less…
Why read it?
1 author picked Governance as Leadership as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
It’s really easy to describe the 3-4 basic, essential things that a nonprofit board of directors must do. But when a board is reduced to doing only those minimal activities, then everyone is wasting a lot of time—and all that talent that lives on most boards is lost.
I always come back to this book when I’m helping board members to both be and feel like what they’re doing is actually important for advancing the mission.
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