Over the course of my thirty-plus years of work with nonprofit/public chief executives, one of the more dramatic CEO role shifts I’ve observed has...
Benjamin Rose Institute’s CEO Orion Bell: Connector-in-Chief Extraordinaire
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Energizer-in-Chief Redux: Stakeholder Relationship Management
“Incredible. We must be talking about 40 or more stakeholders.” This was one of the responses to the question I asked in the daylong governance...
CEO Dave Genova on Getting Stakeholder Engagement Right at RTD-Denver
You’ll recall that in earlier posts at this blog we’ve defined “stakeholders” as individuals, groups, and organizations it makes sense to build and...
The Miami Lighthouse Partners With the Miami Dade County Schools in the Pre-K Arena
Virginia Jacko and I tell her incredible true story in our book The Blind Visionary (www.GovernanceEdge.com): losing her eyesight while serving as...
Your Stakeholders Are Worth Taking Very Seriously
The breakout group exercise was an even bigger hit than I expected – and a real eye-opener for everyone involved in the...
Learning From Two Extraordinary CEO Ambassadors-in-Chief
There is wide agreement in both the for-profit and nonprofit sectors that the chief executive officer must devote at least 30...