{"product_id":"the-strategic-board-mark-light-9780471403586","title":"The Strategic Board: The Step-By-Step Guide to High-Impact Governance","description":"A SIMPLE, PRACTICAL PLAN FOR BUILDING A GREAT, EFFECTIVEBOARD \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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: \u003cbr\u003e * Develops a Leadership Plan that determines \"Where to gotomorrow?\"\u003cbr\u003e * Creates a Delegation Plan that specifies \"Who does what?\"\u003cbr\u003e * Follows through with a Management Plan that decides \"What getsdone today?\"\u003cbr\u003e * Puts in place a Vigilance Plan to answer the question \"Did ithappen?\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Every nonprofit board dreams of greatness. Here are the tools toachieve it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark Light\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 047140358X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780471403586\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wiley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/04\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.22lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.34h x 6.10w x 0.97d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2001 pg. 86","brand":"Mark Light","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44119742742783,"sku":"9780471403586","price":78.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4876ed6c-9a2b-4ffb-a16b-88864f602b38.jpg?v=1687410715","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-strategic-board-mark-light-9780471403586","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}