Tag: nonprofit board-CEO relations
Nathan Ohle Puts Stakeholder Relations Front and Center in Taking the Helm at IEDC
Building and maintaining close, positive, productive, and enduring working relationships with key internal and external stakeholders is now widely recognized as critical to a chief executive officer’s success and professional longevity at the helm. Nathan Ohle, the new President and …
Your Board Chair: a Primo Stakeholder You Neglect at Your Peril
The special board work session had been scheduled to consider a key recommendation coming out of the daylong board-CEO-executive team governance retreat three weeks earlier: replacing the board’s dysfunctional silo committees (e.g., business retention) with committees aligned with the board’s …
The Zoom Muzzle Syndrome Redux
Since writing the August 6 post some four months ago I’ve learned much more about Zoom as a video conferencing resource. For example, I know from experience that Zoom can even make bringing off a full-fledged, daylong virtual strategic governing …
Jeff Finkle and Craig Richard on Hitting the Ground Running With Your New Board
Our readers are no doubt aware of our recent decision to focus our Extraordinary CEO blog on leadership in the economic and community development arena. Our updated mission is “to provide – in close cooperation with the International Economic …
What, Me Afraid of a Big Board?
A little over four years ago, Jeff Finkle, President of the International Economic Development Council, and Virginia Jacko, President & CEO of the Miami Lighthouse for the Blind, recorded one of the all-time most popular podcasts for this blog. They …
Two Lynchpins of a High-Performing Board Committee Structure
While preparing for a four-hour Zoom work session a couple of weeks ago with the chief executive and executive team of a nonprofit economic development corporation, focusing on preparation for the launch of a new board committee structure, I reflected …
Leaders, CEOs, Teachers: Birds of a Feather
In Chicago recently to present a program for nonprofit chief executives on board-CEO relations, I made a side trip to visit a well-regarded nonprofit corporation, Smith Crossing, a retirement community southwest of the city. During my brief visit, I had …
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 …
The Captain of Your Strategic Governing Team
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.
When a public transit board chooses its CEO, it’s also choosing the …
Turning Your Board Members Into a Cohesive Governing Team: Part 1
Teamwork in the abstract is neither here nor there for nonprofit and public boards. The only serious reason for developing your board’s teamwork is to help it function as a more effective governing body that gets its governing work done …
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