The Strategic Board: The Step-By-Step Guide to High-Impact Governance (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780471403586)

A SIMPLE, PRACTICAL PLAN FOR BUILDING A GREAT, EFFECTIVEBOARD

Every nonprofit board wants to be great. But the reality is, feware. It's one of the great puzzles of governance. How do you moldhighly talented individuals with diverse backgrounds, limited time, and no governance expertise into an effective board?

The Strategic Board provides the answer. Drawing on more thantwenty years of nonprofit experience, Mark Light outlines apractical model that overcomes the built-in deficiencies ofnonprofit boards and guides them to strategic effectiveness. TheStrategic Board(TM) model of governance is a step-by-step, easy-to-implement, multilevel course of action that enables a boardto craft a comprehensive Governance Plan(TM) that:
* Develops a Leadership Plan that determines "Where to gotomorrow?"
* Creates a Delegation Plan that specifies "Who does what?"
* Follows through with a Management Plan that decides "What getsdone today?"
* Puts in place a Vigilance Plan to answer the question "Did ithappen?"

The Strategic Board approach doesn't dictate the answers. Rather, it makes sure you ask all the right questions as you outline yourgoals and focus on achieving them. It's a uniquely flexibleblueprint for better functioning that will at last connect yourboard's work about where you go tomorrow with your staff's work onwhat gets done today.

Every nonprofit board dreams of greatness. Here are the tools toachieve it.

Author: Mark Light
ISBN-10: 047140358X
ISBN-13: 9780471403586
Publisher: Wiley
Language: English
Published: 05/04/2001
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.22lbs
Size: 9.34h x 6.10w x 0.97d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2001 pg. 86