A new framework for helping nonprofit organizations maximize theeffectiveness of their boards.
Written by noted consultants and researchers attuned to the needsof practitioners, Governance as Leadership redefinesnonprofit governance. It provides a powerful framework for a newcovenant between trustees and executives: more macrogovernance inexchange for less micromanagement.
Informed by theories that have transformed the practice oforganizational leadership, this book sheds new light on thetraditional fiduciary and strategic work of the board andintroduces a critical third dimension of effective trusteeship:generative governance. It serves boards as both a resource of freshapproaches to familiar territory and a lucid guide to important newterritory, and provides a road map that leads nonprofit trusteesand executives to governance as leadership.
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