Many nonprofits never take full advantage of their board members. Extraordinary Board Leadership: The Keys to Governing deals with an incredibly important topic – “high-impact governing” – which is at the heart not only of a nonprofit’s effectiveness, but also the key to a positive, productive, and enduring board-CEO partnership. This text offers practical, hands-on guidance, which is based on in-depth real-life experience and can be put to immediate use. It goes beyond the old-fashioned “policy governance” approach – beyond the rules – in dealing with the board-CEO-executive staff partnership. The 2nd edition of this successful book includes more case studies and new information aimed at public governing bodies, as well as more tables and charts to accompany a fresh new text design.

Extraordinary Board Leadership: The Keys to High Impact Governing: The Keys to High Impact Governing

Business & Money

Eadie, Doug

Management & Leadership

Jones& Bartlett Learning

The Board-Savvy Superintendent's hard-hitting, no-nonsense, advice on school board leadership capitalizes on Houston and Eadie's hands-on experience working with hundreds of boards and superintendents over the past quarter-century. It is a practical, survive-and-thrive book that will help school district leaders―board members, superintendents, and senior administrators―learn to work together successfully in leading their districts in these extraordinarily challenging times. Filled with detailed, thoroughly tested guidance on how to acquire the skills and knowledge that make up board savvyness, it also addresses how to develop the school board's capacity to produce truly high-impact governance, and how to build a strong, enduring, productive board-superintendent working partnership. The authors take a fresh look at the process of governing, going well beyond the old-fashioned, control-focused "policy governance" approach. Rather than being preoccupied with developing a static structure of policies to distinguish the board's role from the superintendent's, the book describes how the board and superintendent can creatively work together in making decisions about such critical governing "products" as values, vision, mission, and strategic change initiatives. School district leaders will appreciate The Board-Savvy Superintendent's close look at the "gold standard" for board involvement in school affairs: leading strategic change. The authors go well beyond the conventional long-range planning approach of merely projecting everything a school district is doing for some arbitrary period of 3 or 5 years, which has generated tons of paper and little important change to provide the reader with detailed, practical guidance on engaging school boards creatively and proactively in a much more selective, vision-driven process that actually results in the implementation of strategic change: the Strategic Change Portfolio.

The Board-Savvy Superintendent

Education & Teaching

Houston American Association of School Administrators, Paul D.

Schools & Teaching

R&L Education

This book reveals the power of high-impact governance. The author helps nonprofits reach beyond success to develop dynamic leadership that makes the board a true asset in leading change and achieving unprecedented results.

Extraordinary Board Leadership: The Seven Keys to High-Impact Governance (Aspen's Nonprofit Management Series)

Business Development & Entrepreneurship

Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc.

In Building a Rock-Solid Partnership With Your Board, author Doug Eadie draws on his work with hundreds of nonprofit and public organizations of every size and purpose to explain how board-savvy CEOs effectively manage the human dimension of the governing board-CEO relationship. Using real-world case studies, he outlines five keys to builidng a rock-solid partnership between the organization's CEO and its board of directors: 1.) bring the right mindset to the governing arena; 2.) make the board chair a close ally; 3.) turn board members into strong owners; 4.) make the board's work more interesting and enjoyable; and 5.) put in place a well-designed CEO evaluation process. CEOs who want their nonprofit organizations to thrive in difficult times will learn how to create an empowered board that collaborates effectively with the chief executive in such key areas as strategic and operational planning; performance monitoring; and external relataions. Readers will learn to harness the extensive knowledge, experience and outside connections that governing boards can bring to the organization's Strategic Governing Team, helping to assure the nonprofit's long-term success and job security for the board-savvy CEO.

Building a Rock-Solid Partnership with Your Board: A Real-Life, Practical Guidebook for Nonprofit and Public Ceos

Eadie, Douglas C.

Governance Edge Publications

The Blind Visionary: Practical Lessons for Meeting Challenges on the Way to a More Fulfilling Life and Career

Virginia Jacko was a highly successful senior financial executive at Purdue University when she was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa-in her case, she would go completely blind. The Blind Visionary tells Virginia's true, inspiring journey-from having to start over in life as a vocational rehabilitation student at the Miami Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired to becoming the Lighthouse's president and CEO just four years later. One of only a handful of blind chief executives in the country, Virginia became an outstanding chief executive, doubling the Lighthouse's revenues and dramatically diversifying its program offerings. The coauthors discuss in the closing chapter four practical lessons, drawn from Virginia's odyssey, that will help readers find the courage to take action, create positive change, and live fully in the face of whatever challenges might come their way. This amazing success story will inspire you to overcome obstacles on your way to building a more satisfying personal and professional life.

Jacko, Virginia

Business Culture

In his path-breaking new book, "Leading Out-of-the-Box Change: The Chief Executive's Essential Guide to Achieving Nonprofit Innovation and Growth," leadership expert Doug Eadie draws from his quarter century of experience working with nonprofit and public leaders to provide a practical, thoroughly tested guide for leading the kind of out-of-the-box change that is critical to a nonprofit organization's long-range stability and growth. Doug describes the critical leadership role of the chief executive officer as Innovator-in-Chief and lays out the key elements of a powerful new change-planning tool that nonprofit leaders can apply to take command of out-of-the-box change: the Change Investment Portfolio Process. Doug also describes how to transform the organization's governing body into a strong advocate for - and committed owner of - out-of-the-box change initiatives. In the book's Postscript, the author also discusses the personal application of the Portfolio Process to build richer, more satisfying professional and personal lives. From the Foreword: "What makes Doug's book a particularly rich resource for non-profit and public leaders is its grounding in Doug's quarter century of hands-on work with an incredible range of organizations. Leading Out-of-the-Box Change is a real-life guidebook, for real-life leaders who are facing real-life challenges-not just another one of those collections of fascinating but untested theories." Christie A. Tarantino, CAE President &amp; CEO Association Forum of Chicagoland

Leading Out-Of-The-Box Change: The Chief Executive's Essential Guide to Achieving Nonprofit Innovation and Growth (Governance Edge Leadership)

The Board-Savvy CEO is a "survive-and-thrive" handbook for nonprofit chief executive officers and executives aspiring to become CEOs. Governance expert and author Doug Eadie explains how leaders who build and maintain a close, productive partnership with their boards do a better job of translating vision into practice and achieving organizational stability, innovation, and growth. The author devotes a chapter to each of the three critical functions of a board-savvy CEO: chief board capacity builder; chief governing process designer; and chief governing relationship manager. Eadie explains, in Chapter Two, how the board-savvy CEO (as chief board capacity builder) helps the governing body define and develop its own governing mission; evaluate and implement effective standing committees that mirror the major streams of decision making; and design and adopt processes that enable the board to manage its own performance. He shows in the next chapter how CEOs who wish to be known as board savvy take the lead in designing processes that engage board members in such governing functions as planning, performance monitoring, and external relations so as to heighten their feelings of satisfaction and ownership -- qualities that Eadie says make board members more positive and productive governing partners. Pointing out that the board-CEO working relationship is easily frayed, the author describes in Chapter Four how savvy CEOs help their boards assign a committee to monitor and manage the relationship; reach agreement on formal guidelines for CEO interaction and communication; and assure that a process for CEO performance evaluation is carried out annually. The Board-Savvy CEO is chock-full of richly detailed, real-world guidance on how to keep board members actively engaged in governing work that makes a real difference in their organization. From the Foreword: "If you are deeply concerned about the leadership of nonprofit and public organizations of all shapes and sizes, you will want to add The Board-Savvy CEO to your reading--and rereading--list and keep it close at hand as a powerful leadership resource." Robert E. Eckardt Executive Vice President The Cleveland Foundation

The Board-Savvy CEO: Building a High-Impact Partnership With Your Board

Building a Solid Board-CEO Partnership: A Practical Guidebook for Transit Board Members, CEOs, and CEO-Aspirants

In their new book, coauthors Doug Eadie and David Stackrow offer practical, detailed guidance for building the kind of close and productive transit board-CEO partnership that will stand the test of these challenging times. Without a high-functioning Strategic Governing Team at the top, the authors contend, public transit authorities fail to realize their tremendous potential to improve the quality of life in their communities. The polar opposite of a theoretical, abstract treatise on public leadership, this compact but richly detailed volume draws on the authors’ fifty-plus years of real-world experience in the transit sector. You’ll find it to be a deep reservoir of practical, tested guidance you can put to immediate use in transforming your board into a higher-impact governing body that makes a tremendous difference in the affairs of your authority.
The authors reject the traditional arm’s-length, “we-they” approach to the board-CEO partnership—a passive-reactive model that they describe as a recipe for governing futility. In its place they argue for making transit governing a truly “team sport,” appealing to the new breed of board member who expects to be actively engaged in shaping—not just making—strategic governing decisions.
In remarkably useful detail—including real-world cases—the authors cover such topics as <ul>
<li>Significant advances in the rapidly evolving field of public transit governance</li> <li>The role of the CEO as the board’s chief governing partner and captain of the Strategic Governing Team</li> <li>An updated, real-world definition of governing work as very concrete decisions and judgments, rather than vague “policy making” </li> <li>Practical ways to strengthen the board’s capacity to manage its own governing performance</li> <li>The design of board standing committees that function as highly efficient governing engines, working in close partnership with the CEO</li> <li>Meaningful board-member engagement in strategic and operational planning, performance oversight, and external relations—turning board members into satisfied owners of their governing work</li> </ul>
If you’re a transit authority board member, CEO or CEO-aspirant, or an elected official who appoints transit board members, you’ll want to keep this volume close at hand, referring to it frequently in carrying out your leadership mission.

Stackrow, David

Doug Eadie & Company

Product Description In their new book, coauthors Doug Eadie and David Stackrow offer practical, detailed guidance for building the kind of close and productive transit board-CEO partnership that will stand the test of these challenging times. Without a high-functioning Strategic Governing Team at the top, the authors contend, public transit authorities fail to realize their tremendous potential to improve the quality of life in their communities. The polar opposite of a theoretical, abstract treatise on public leadership, this compact but richly detailed volume draws on the authors’ fifty-plus years of real-world experience in the transit sector. You’ll find it to be a deep reservoir of practical, tested guidance you can put to immediate use in transforming your board into a higher-impact governing body that makes a tremendous difference in the affairs of your authority.The authors reject the traditional arm’s-length, “we-they” approach to the board-CEO partnership—a passive-reactive model that they describe as a recipe for governing futility. In its place they argue for making transit governing a truly “team sport,” appealing to the new breed of board member who expects to be actively engaged in shaping—not just making—strategic governing decisions.In remarkably useful detail—including real-world cases—the authors cover such topics as Significant advances in the rapidly evolving field of public transit governanceThe role of the CEO as the board’s chief governing partner and captain of the Strategic Governing TeamAn updated, real-world definition of governing work as very concrete decisions and judgments, rather than vague “policy making” Practical ways to strengthen the board’s capacity to manage its own governing performanceThe design of board standing committees that function as highly efficient governing engines, working in close partnership with the CEOMeaningful board-member engagement in strategic and operational planning, performance oversight, and external relations—turning board members into satisfied owners of their governing workIf you’re a transit authority board member, CEO or CEO-aspirant, or an elected official who appoints transit board members, you’ll want to keep this volume close at hand, referring to it frequently in carrying out your leadership mission. About the Author The founder and CEO of Doug Eadie & Company, Doug Eadie has over the past thirty years helped more than five hundred public and nonprofit organizations to build their boards' capacity to do high-impact governing work and to develop rock-solid board-CEO working relationships. Doug is the author of twenty-one books in addition to Building a Solid Board-CEO Partnership, including The Board-Savvy CEO, and of more than one hundred articles on board and CEO leadership and board-CEO relations. He administers and writes for a popular blog for public transportation leaders, www.boardsavvytransitceo.com. Before founding Doug Eadie & Company, Doug served in a number of senior executive positions in the nonprofit sector and as a Peace Corps teacher in Ethiopia for three years. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, Doug was awarded the master of science in management degree by the Weatherhead School of Case Western Reserve University.David Stackrow is managing partner of Scott, Stackrow & Co., CPAs. He was appointed to the Capital District Transportation Authority (CDTA) board in 1995, serving as board chair during three different terms. Dave was named Outstanding Board Member of the Year in 2009 by the American Public Transportation Association (APTA). He was elected to the APTA board of directors in 2014 and to the executive committee in 2016, and he currently serves as chair of the APTA board. Dave has served as chair of APTA's transit board member and audit committees and has been involved in a number of other APTA committees, including finance. Dave is a graduate of La Salle Institute and Siena

Governing at the Top: Building a Board-Superintendent Strategic Governing Team

Doug Eadie's Governing at the Top: Building a Board-Superintendent Strategic Governing Team is both a powerful addition to the K-12 governance literature and a practical guidebook for school board members, superintendents, and senior administrators. Opening with a crystal-clear, eminently practical definition of the work of governing that goes well-beyond the outdated notion of "policy making," this exciting new book then takes a close look at the key elements involved in building the kind of rock-solid board-superintendent governing partnership that these changing, challenging times demand. After describing the critical role of a "board-savvy" superintendent in the governing partnership, Doug examines in detail how board-superintendent teams can go about developing the board's governing "architecture" (the board's governing role, its members, and its committee structure), mapping out processes for active board member engagement in governing work, and keeping the board-superintendent working relationship healthy. View the AASA-produced information video for Governing at the Top at the following Internet address: http: //www.youtube.com/watch'v=JOob0Jp2ZuU. -Professors interested in examining this book as a textbook or supplemental text, contact textbooks@rowman.com with your course information.

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Extraordinary Board Leadership: The Keys to High Impact Governing: The Keys to High Impact Governing

The Board-Savvy Superintendent

Extraordinary Board Leadership: The Seven Keys to High-Impact Governance (Aspen's Nonprofit Management Series)

Building a Rock-Solid Partnership with Your Board: A Real-Life, Practical Guidebook for Nonprofit and Public Ceos

The Blind Visionary: Practical Lessons for Meeting Challenges on the Way to a More Fulfilling Life and Career

Leading Out-Of-The-Box Change: The Chief Executive's Essential Guide to Achieving Nonprofit Innovation and Growth (Governance Edge Leadership)

The Board-Savvy CEO: Building a High-Impact Partnership With Your Board

Building a Solid Board-CEO Partnership: A Practical Guidebook for Transit Board Members, CEOs, and CEO-Aspirants

Building a Solid Board-CEO Partnership: A Practical Guidebook for Transit Board Members, CEOs, and CEO-Aspirants

Governing at the Top: Building a Board-Superintendent Strategic Governing Team