Let me tell you a tale of two authorities’ very different approaches to presenting financial performance reports at their monthly board meetings. ...
Bagging Three Big Feathered Friends
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Month: July 2015
Volunteering and Idealism
Several years ago I was walking through the student union at the University of Illinois-Urbana in December of my senior year thinking about law...
Volunteering And Idealism
Several years ago I was walking through the student union at the University of Illinois-Urbana in December of my senior year thinking about law...
Keeping the Board Chair-Superintendent Relationship Healthy: Tips From 6 Really Board-Savvy Superintendents
Our July 1 article at this blog, “Don’t Forget Your Board Chair’s Paycheck,” talks about board-savvy superintendents’ use of nonmonetary...
Stakeholders as Partners in Innovation: Real-Life Cases
Stakeholders have loomed large in the last couple of articles posted at this blog. “The Dallas Streetcar: Intergovernmental Collaboration At Work”...
Tending To Your Preeminent Stakeholder
This article originally appeared at another Doug Eadie & Company Blog: www.boardsavvytransitceo.com. One of the breakout groups at a...
5 Extraordinary CEOs Discuss Recent Great Reads: Continuing Our Look at Your Own Professional Development
The June 10 post at extraordinaryceo.com features a podcast by CEOs Michael Anderson and Chris Fox, who discuss the approaches they take to...
We Could Use Some Pillow Talk About Board-Superintendent Partnership Building
Nicholas Kristof’s thought-provoking column in the July 19 New York Times, “Bill and Melinda’s Pillow Talk,” is mainly about the tremendous progress...
CEOs Jeff Finkle and Michelle Mason on Character and Leadership
Our July 7 post at this blog, “About Character and CEO Leadership,” takes a look at various elements making up a person’s...
Don’t Be Seduced By the Siren Song of “Policy Governance”
“We’re in a state of shock and can’t figure out what’s going on.” These were the first words I recall coming out of the board president’s mouth in...