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Blog Table of Contents
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Board Capacity Builder
Turning Your Board Members Into a Cohesive Governing Team: Part 2
https://extraordinaryceo.com/turning-your-board-members-into-a-cohesive-governing-team-part-2/
Turning Your Board Members Into a Cohesive Governing Team: Part 1
https://extraordinaryceo.com/turning-your-board-members-into-a-cohesive-governing-team-part-1/
Really Board-Savvy CEOs Avoid the Trap of Letterhead Board Members
https://extraordinaryceo.com/really-board-savvy-ceos-avoid-trap-letterhead-board-members/
Board-Savvy CEOs Avoid Falling Into the Board Self-Assessment Trap
https://extraordinaryceo.com/board-savvy-ceos-avoid-falling-board-self-assessment-trap/
Questions to Anticipate From Prospective Board Members
https://extraordinaryceo.com/questions-anticipate-prospective-board-members/
Board-Savvy CEOs Don’t Bury Their Board in Paper
https://extraordinaryceo.com/board-savvy-ceos-dont-bury-board-paper/
Association Forum CEO Michelle Mason on Developing Her Board’s Composition
https://extraordinaryceo.com/association-forum-ceo-michelle-mason-developing-boards-composition/
What Makes Women Such Effective Board Members?
https://extraordinaryceo.com/272-2/
What, Me Worry About a Big Board?
https://extraordinaryceo.com/what-me-worry-about-a-big-board/
A Small, Un-diverse Board Is a Distinct Disadvantage In Today’s World
https://extraordinaryceo.com/a-small-un-diverse-board-is-a-distinct-disadvantage-in-todays-world/
The Powerful Case For a Diverse Board
https://extraordinaryceo.com/the-powerful-case-for-a-diverse-board/
Rich Manners On Reasons For Joining – or Leaving – a Nonprofit Board
https://extraordinaryceo.com/rich-manners-on-reasons-for-joining-or-leaving-a-nonprofit-board/
Board-CEO Relationship
Leaders, CEOs, Teachers: Birds of a Feather
https://extraordinaryceo.com/leaders-ceos-teachers-birds-of-a-feather/
Four Governing Hats New-Model CEOs Wear
https://extraordinaryceo.com/four-governing-hats-new-model-ceos-wear/
Emerging New CEO Governing Model
https://extraordinaryceo.com/emerging-new-ceo-governing-model/
The Captain of Your Strategic Governing Team
https://extraordinaryceo.com/the-captain-of-your-strategic-governing-team/
Building a New Board-CEO Partnership at the American Association of Orthodontists
https://extraordinaryceo.com/building-a-new-board-ceo-partnership-at-the-american-association-of-orthodontists/
Caveat Emptor: an Axiom All Really Board-Savvy CEOs Take to Heart
https://extraordinaryceo.com/caveat-emptor-an-axiom-all-really-board-savvy-ceos-take-to-heart/
Get Your Board-CEO Retreat Right
https://extraordinaryceo.com/get-your-board-ceo-retreat-right/
Cementing the Partnership With Your Board
https://extraordinaryceo.com/cementing-the-partnership-with-your-board/
Three Seasoned, Board-Savvy Leaders Talk about the Board Chair-CEO Partnership
https://extraordinaryceo.com/three-seasoned-board-savvy-leaders-talk-about-the-board-chair-ceo-partnership/
What Are You Paying Your Board Chair?
https://extraordinaryceo.com/what-are-you-paying-your-board-chair/
Setting the Stage for a Podcast Featuring 3 CEOs Who Examine the Board Chair-CEO Partnership
https://extraordinaryceo.com/setting-stage-podcast-featuring-3-ceos-examine-board-chair-ceo-partnership/
David Stackrow, Master of the Governing Game, on the Board Chair-CEO Partnership
https://extraordinaryceo.com/david-stackrow-master-governing-game-board-chair-ceo-partnership/
Time to Update and Fine-Tune Your CEO Leadership Resolutions
https://extraordinaryceo.com/time-update-fine-tune-ceo-leadership-resolutions/
Don’t Let Your Board Beat You To the Punch
https://extraordinaryceo.com/dont-let-board-beat-punch/
Kick Off 2017 By Updating Your CEO Governance Strategy
https://extraordinaryceo.com/kick-off-2017-updating-ceo-governance-strategy/
Another Insidious Foe: Assuming That Fund Raising is a Key Governing Function
https://extraordinaryceo.com/another-insidious-foe-assuming-fund-raising-key-governing-function/
Your Board Chair’s Paycheck
https://extraordinaryceo.com/board-chairs-paycheck/
Insidious Foe #1: Governing Is Very Simply Policy Making
https://extraordinaryceo.com/insidious-foe-1-governing-simply-policy-making/
8 Insidious Foes of a Solid Board-CEO Partnership: A New Series
https://extraordinaryceo.com/8-insidious-foes-solid-board-ceo-partnership-new-series/
Keeping the Really High-Stakes Board Chair-CEO Partnership Healthy
https://extraordinaryceo.com/keeping-the-really-high-stakes-board-chair-ceo-partnership-healthy/
Board Savvy CEOs
Satisfied Owners Make For More Reliable Partners: Hearing From MSAE’s CEO Cheryl Ronk
https://extraordinaryceo.com/satisfied-owners-make-reliable-partners-hearing-msaes-ceo-cheryl-ronk/
The Cleveland Foundation Fosters Extraordinary CEO Leadership
https://extraordinaryceo.com/the-cleveland-foundation-fosters-extraordinary-ceo-leadership/
CEO Professional Growth
It’s Never Been Easier to Publish Your Own Book, So Go for It!
https://extraordinaryceo.com/never-easier-publish-book-go/
CEO Nat Ford on Hitting the Ground Running As a New CEO
https://extraordinaryceo.com/ceo-nat-ford-hitting-ground-running-new-ceo/
Leadership Lessons From a Highly Successful CEO
https://extraordinaryceo.com/leadership-lessons-highly-successful-ceo/
Two Defining Traits of Successful Chiefs of Staff
https://extraordinaryceo.com/two-defining-traits-successful-chiefs-staff/
IEDC President & CEO Jeff Finkle on Learning From Mistakes
https://extraordinaryceo.com/iedc-president-ceo-jeff-finkle-learning-mistakes/
So Tell Us About Your Failures
https://extraordinaryceo.com/tell-us-failures/
Looking Beyond Conventional Leadership and Management Literature
https://extraordinaryceo.com/looking-beyond-conventional-leadership-management-literature/
When Procrastination Can Be a Virtue
https://extraordinaryceo.com/when-procrastination-can-be-a-virtue/
The Blind Visionary: Keeping Her Ego in Check and Things in Perspective
https://extraordinaryceo.com/the-blind-visionary-keeping-her-ego-in-check-and-things-in-perspective/
Preparing to Take the Helm at the Virginia Society of Association Executives
https://extraordinaryceo.com/preparing-to-take-the-helm-at-the-virginia-society-of-association-executives/
Jeff Thomson: From For-Profit Executive to Nonprofit Association CEO
https://extraordinaryceo.com/jeff-thomson-from-for-profit-executive-to-nonprofit-association-ceo/
Beware of the Emperor’s New Clothes Syndrome
https://extraordinaryceo.com/beware-of-the-emperors-new-clothes-syndrome/
5 Extraordinary CEOs Discuss Recent Great Reads: Continuing Our Look at Your Own Professional Development
https://extraordinaryceo.com/fashioning-your-own-professional-development-strategy-part-two/
CEOs Jeff Finkle and Michelle Mason on Character and Leadership
https://extraordinaryceo.com/ceos-jeff-finkle-and-michelle-mason-on-character-and-leadership/
About Character and CEO Leadership
https://extraordinaryceo.com/about-character-and-ceo-leadership/
Extraordinary CEOs Michael Anderson and Christopher Fox Talk About Their Own Professional Development
https://extraordinaryceo.com/extraordinary-ceos-michael-anderson-and-christopher-fox-talk-about-their-own-professional-development/
External Relations and Fundraising
Your Stakeholders Are Worth Taking Very Seriously
https://extraordinaryceo.com/stakeholders-worth-taking-seriously/
Whither Volunteer Involvement In Our Nonprofits?
https://extraordinaryceo.com/whither-volunteer-involvement-in-our-nonprofits-2/
Learning From Two Extraordinary CEO Ambassadors-in-Chief
https://extraordinaryceo.com/learning-from-two-extraordinary-ceo-ambassadors-in-chief/
Innovation/Change Management
The Creativity-Innovation Nexus: Part One of Our Creativity Series
https://extraordinaryceo.com/the-creativity-innovation-nexus-part-one-of-our-creativity-series/
Sue Buchholtz: Serial Social Entrepreneur
https://extraordinaryceo.com/sue-buchholtz-serial-social-entrepreneur-2/
METRO’s Tom Lambert: Consummate Innovator-in-Chief
https://extraordinaryceo.com/metros-tom-lambert-consummate-innovator-in-chief/
Taking Core Values Seriously at the Association Forum of Chicagoland
https://extraordinaryceo.com/taking-core-values-seriously-at-the-association-forum-of-chicagoland/
COTA’s Board Chair and CEO Talk About Breaking the Traditional CEO Mold
https://extraordinaryceo.com/cotas-board-chair-and-ceo-talk-about-breaking-the-traditional-ceo-mold/
Thoughts on True Humility and Senator John McCain
https://extraordinaryceo.com/thoughts-on-true-humility-and-senator-john-mccain/
CEO Dave Genova on Getting Stakeholder Engagement Right at RTD-Denver
https://extraordinaryceo.com/ceo-dave-genova-on-getting-stakeholder-engagement-right-at-rtd-denver/
CEO Joe Marinucci on Creating the Downtown Cleveland Alliance
https://extraordinaryceo.com/ceo-joe-marinucci-on-creating-the-downtown-cleveland-alliance/
CEO Rob Paterkiewicz on Updating Selected Independent Funeral Homes’ Business Model
https://extraordinaryceo.com/ceo-rob-paterkiewicz-on-updating-selected-independent-funeral-homes-business-model/
Nonprofit Business Models Redux
https://extraordinaryceo.com/nonprofit-business-models-redux/
The Miami Lighthouse: An Innovation Engine on CEO Virginia Jacko’s Watch
https://extraordinaryceo.com/miami-lighthouse-innovation-engine-ceo-virginia-jackos-watch/
CEO Michael Terry Spearheads Innovative Health and Wellness Initiatives
https://extraordinaryceo.com/ceo-michael-terry-spearheads-innovative-health-wellness-initiatives/
Buzzer Management: Key to Innovation
https://extraordinaryceo.com/buzzer-management-key-innovation/
Involving Your Board in Strategic Organizational Development
https://extraordinaryceo.com/involving-board-strategic-organizational-development/
Taking Core Values to Heart at the Association Forum of Chicagoland
https://extraordinaryceo.com/taking-core-values-heart-association-forum-chicagoland/
That Vision Thing
https://extraordinaryceo.com/that-vision-thing/
About Your Core Values Statement: A Powerful Leadership Tool
https://extraordinaryceo.com/core-values-statement-powerful-leadership-tool/
Vision: Your Board’s Driver of Innovation and Change
https://extraordinaryceo.com/vision-boards-driver-innovation-change/
Another Insidious Foe: That Strategic Planning is a Powerful Innovation Tool
https://extraordinaryceo.com/another-insidious-foe-strategic-planning-powerful-innovation-tool/
Fostering Innovative CEO Leadership: a Conversation With Bob Eckardt
https://extraordinaryceo.com/fostering-innovative-ceo-leadership-conversation-bob-eckardt/
Ownership: the Breakfast of Change Champions
https://extraordinaryceo.com/ownership-breakfast-change-champions/
Seven Extraordinary CEOs Wearing the Creator-in-Chief Hat
https://extraordinaryceo.com/seven-extraordinary-ceos-wearing-creator-chief-hat/
Extraordinary CEOs Who Wear the Demystifier-in-Chief Hat
https://extraordinaryceo.com/extraordinary-ceos-wear-demystifier-chief-hat/
The CEO as Innovator-in-Chief
https://extraordinaryceo.com/ceo-innovator-chief/
Two Extraordinary CEOs Spearhead Business Model Updates
https://extraordinaryceo.com/two-extraordinary-ceos-spearhead-business-model-updates/
Planning Out of the Box: Updating CSAE’s Business Model, Part Two
https://extraordinaryceo.com/planning-box-updating-csaes-business-model-part-two/
The Canadian Society of Association Executives Updates Its Business Model: Part One
https://extraordinaryceo.com/canadian-society-association-executives-updates-business-model-part-one/
About Nonprofit Business Models – A New Series of Podcasts
https://extraordinaryceo.com/about-business-models-a-new-series-of-podcasts/
Cultivating the Art of Serendipity
https://extraordinaryceo.com/cultivating-the-art-of-serendipity/
Beware Of Planning Yourself Into a Box
https://extraordinaryceo.com/beware-of-planning-yourself-into-a-box/
Sue Buchholtz: Serial Social Entrepreneur
https://extraordinaryceo.com/sue-buchholtz-serial-social-entrepreneur/
Fear: the Insidious Foe of Positive Organizational Change
https://extraordinaryceo.com/fear-the-insidious-foe-of-positive-organizational-change/
Cleveland Orchestra Miami: A Venerable Performing Arts Institution Leads Strategic Change
https://extraordinaryceo.com/cleveland-orchestra-miami-a-venerable-performing-arts-institution-leads-strategic-change/
Sensible Failure
https://extraordinaryceo.com/sensible-failure/
You’ve Got To Hit the Buzzer
https://extraordinaryceo.com/youve-got-to-hit-the-buzzer/
Playing the Innovator-in-Chief Role With Gusto
https://extraordinaryceo.com/playing-the-innovator-in-chief-role-with-gusto/
Inspiration/Motivation
CEO Jeff Thomson: the Chief Energizer at Work at IMA
https://extraordinaryceo.com/ceo-jeff-thomson-chief-energizer-work-ima/
Our Land of Opportunity – Still
https://extraordinaryceo.com/land-opportunity-still/
Abe Abraham on Thinking Your Way Out of the Ditch
https://extraordinaryceo.com/abe-abraham-thinking-way-ditch/
The Blind Visionary Reaches Out Aggressively
https://extraordinaryceo.com/blind-visionary-reaches-aggressively/
The Extraordinary CEO as Energizer-in-Chief
https://extraordinaryceo.com/extraordinary-ceo-energizer-chief/
Dr. Steve Goldman: Volunteer Extraordinaire
https://extraordinaryceo.com/dr-steve-goldman-volunteer-extraordinaire/
The Leadership Cost of Taking a Tiger By the Tail
https://extraordinaryceo.com/the-leadership-cost-of-taking-a-tiger-by-the-tail/
Volunteering and Idealism
https://extraordinaryceo.com/volunteering-and-idealism/
From Tragedy To a Passionate New CEO Mission
https://extraordinaryceo.com/from-tragedy-to-a-passionate-new-ceo-mission/
Virginia Jacko: CEO Extraordinaire
https://extraordinaryceo.com/virginia-jacko-ceo-extraordinaire/
Organizational Development
CEO Jeff Knueppel Walks the Employee Engagement Talk at SEPTA
https://extraordinaryceo.com/ceo-jeff-knueppel-walks-the-employee-engagement-talk-at-septa/
CEO Suzanne McCormick on Getting the CEO-COO Partnership Right at United Way Suncoast
https://extraordinaryceo.com/ceo-suzanne-mccormick-on-getting-the-ceo-coo-partnership-right-at-united-way-suncoast/
CEO Craig Richard On Beefing Up Investors’ ROI at the Tampa Hillsborough EDC
https://extraordinaryceo.com/ceo-craig-richard-beefing-investors-roi-tampa-hillsborough-edc/
The Chief of Staff Alternative To the CEO-COO Structure
https://extraordinaryceo.com/chief-staff-alternative-ceo-coo-structure/
The CEO-COO Partnership: Thriving and Paying Big Dividends at Astor Services
https://extraordinaryceo.com/ceo-coo-partnership-thriving-paying-big-dividends-astor-services/
So You’re Thinking About Adding a Chief Operating Officer To Your Executive Team?
https://extraordinaryceo.com/youre-thinking-adding-chief-operating-officer-executive-team/
Board Composition As a Conscious Growth Tool
https://extraordinaryceo.com/board-composition-as-a-conscious-growth-tool/
Lana Vukovljak: Leading Large-Scale Innovation on the Volunteer Front
https://extraordinaryceo.com/lana-vukovljak-leading-large-scale-innovation-on-the-volunteer-front/
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