A number of years ago I got to know Dick Chait, one of the authors of Governance as Leadership. But this was before that important work was done, and Dick was describing the relationship between a Board and its Executive Director. Two analogies have stayed with me (these are not direct quotes but you’ll get [...]
Thanks to NPQ’s Nonprofit Newswire, published daily by the folks at the Nonprofit Quarterly, I’ve just read an interesting but disturbing article. The key statement is that the authors (university researchers) found that consumers perceive nonprofits to be “less competent than for-profits.” This belief makes people “more likely to buy products from for-profits than non-profits.” [Click here [...]
Micromanagement! It’s not easy being a board member. The work we have to do on a board is not intuitive. Nor is it the kind of work most of us do every day. We are human, and we want to be successful in what we do. However, what we do may not be the right [...]
Below is a reprint of a column published in The News Tribune on November 21, 2004. “There is no question that the nonprofit sector has a board problem.” These words begin Governance as Leadership, a new book about nonprofit boards by three leading writers in the nonprofit field, Dick Chait, Bill Ryan and Barbara Holland. [...]
