Mission drift

One of the sessions for College Presidents and Trustees at the 2010 Council of Christian Colleges and Universities Leadership Forum in Atlanta was entitled:  Making sure that the main thing stays the main thing. Well, what is the main thing? For colleges and universities, and it has

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Governance Team Building

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

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Nonprofit Organization Starvation

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

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Governance Committee

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

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Leadership Dialogues

Peter Drucker created the  Leader to Leader Institute with the mission to help people achieve their greatest leadership potential. One of the programs of the Institute is the Leadership Dialogues which provide free access to video insights and inspiring stories from the best thought leaders in every nation

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