Are you interested in helping your board improve its performance? Are you interested in helping your board become a high functioning team? The Center for Healthcare Governance recently published two monographs that add governance process issues as well as competency based governance. Chief executives and board
Read more →Organizations need to be fed to be healthy and sustainable. If organizations are not fed, they will starve. Authors Ann Gregory and Don Howard, in their article The Nonprofit Starvation Cycle, state that organizations must have proper care and feeding if they are to be successful in
Read more →The Governance Committee maybe the most important committee of the board of directors. The effectiveness of the Board depends on the Governance Committee. Let me explain. The scope of the Governance Committee is the board. Its role is to design, build, enhance, educate, shape and sustain the Board
Read more →When I was in Orlando in December attending the Board Source Governance Forum, the Orlando Sentinel featured an exclusive front page story entitled Blood-bank shake-up. The article began by saying, “With a state Senate investigation of its practices heating up, Metro Orlando’s largest blood center said Friday
Read more →One of the interesting trends in governance identified at the 2009 Board Source Leadership Forum was the Board Secretary as Chief Governance Officer. As the Chief Governance Officer, the Board Secretary would help the Board Chair manage the Board and serve as the Chair of the Governance Committee.
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