Tag: nonprofit CEO leadership
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 …
The Change Investment Portfolio: A Practical Tool For Transformational Change Leaders
The November 6 post at this blog features JJ Harris, President of the Clay County Economic Development Corporation, as a prime example of a new-style chief executive: the Transformational Change Leader. The post describes 5 key attributes of CEOs who …
Clay County EDC’s JJ Harris: A Transformational Change Leader In Action
JJ Harris, President of the Clay County Economic Development Corporation in northeastern Florida and a member of this blog’s CEO Advisory Committee, is a prime example of a new breed of public/nonprofit chief executive officers I’m encountering with increasing frequency …
Hitting the Ground Running With Your New Board: The Board Chair-CEO Partnership
In the video interview featured in last week’s post at this blog, Jeff Finkle and Craig Richard astutely observe that one of the key building blocks of a solid board-CEO partnership is the CEO’s building a close, productive working relationship …
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 …
Suzanne McCormick on Her First Year as US President, United Way Worldwide
Not long into the video interview I recorded last week with Suzanne McCormick, who took the helm as US President of United Way Worldwide a year ago, I was struck by her fresh, open-minded view of the nonprofit chief executive’s …
Benjamin Rose Institute’s CEO Orion Bell: Connector-in-Chief Extraordinaire
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 been the transformation of Ms. Inside to Ms. Outside. It’s now widely recognized in all sectors …
The Board-Savvy CEO: De Facto Captain of the Strategic Governing Team
Governing is a team sport if there ever was one. I’ve never in my 30-plus years of working with nonprofit organizations come across a board that has successfully – on its own – transformed itself into a really high-impact governing …
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 work session I was facilitating, after the breakout group dealing with stakeholder relations had completed …
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