In Meeting the Governing Challenge, author Doug Eadie offers nonprofit and public leaders answers to such critical governance questions as: How can I keep my board focused on the really high-stakes strategic and operational issues? How can we create a feeling of ownership and satisfaction among board members? What can we do to create a solid board-CEO partnership that will meet the test of time? In six concise chapters, Eadie offers an easy-to-apply blueprint for putting in place these key elements of his High-Impact Governing Model: A board-savvy CEO who takes the lead in building the board's leadership capacity A detailed board governing mission and carefully designed governing processes A well-designed structure of board standing committees that function as the organization's governing engines. A board self-management program and strong executive team support systems that help board members carry out their governing functions.

Meeting the Governing Challenge: Applying the High-Impact Governing Model in Your Organization

Business & Money

Doug Eadie

Management & Leadership

Governance Edge Publications

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, Doug

Eadie, Douglas C.

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

Recently featured in Ability Magazine. ABILITY Magazine is ranked in the Top 50 Magazines in the World -- and is the leading magazine covering Health, Disability and Human Potential. 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.

Virginia Jacko

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

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Meeting the Governing Challenge: Applying the High-Impact Governing Model in Your Organization

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

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