Practitioner's Guide to Governance as Leadership Building High-Performing Nonprofit Boards

Name: Practitioner's Guide to Governance as Leadership Building High-Performing Nonprofit Boards
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ISBN: 9781118109878

ISBN-10: 1118109872

ISBN-13: 9781118109878

Edition: 2013

Authors: Cathy A. Trower

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This book gives nonprofit board leaders a solid resource that shows how to achieve excellence and peak performance in the boardroom by fully realizing and putting into practice, tri-modal governance: proficiency in the three modes of governance (fiduciary, strategic and generative). This model was first introduced in Governance as Leadership. The author showcases the practices of high performing nonprofit boards and provide practical guidance toward optimizing those practices: flow (high skill and high purpose); discernment; deliberation; prudence; divergent thinking; insight; meaningfulness; consequence to the organization; and integrity for improved organizational performance and trustee…

Book details

List price: $64.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/17/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English



List of Exhibits, Figures, and Tables?


Foreword



Preface



The Governance as Leadership Model


Premises


Underlying Assumptions


Governance Reform


The Three Modes or Mental Maps


Why Three Modes?



Getting Started and Gaining Traction with Governance as Leadership


What Is Optimized at Board Meetings?


What Is Different about Generative Governance?


Moving to Higher Purpose and Optimizing Performance: Beginning the Conversation


Moving to Higher Purpose and Optimizing Performance: Getting Started


Moving to Higher Purpose and Optimizing Performance: Getting Traction



Encouraging Critical Thinking in the Boardroom


Critical Thinking and Metacognition


Getting on the Balcony


Ways of Thinking


Impediments to Critical Thinking


Cognitive Biases and Board Workarounds


Social Loafing


Groupthink


Avoiding Groupthink and Its Close Cousins



Turning Your Board into a High-Performing Team


Social Systems


Groups and Teams


Boards as Teams


Effective Board Teams in the Context of Governance as Leadership



Creating a Governance-as-Leadership Culture


Culture


Three Toxic Cultures


Culture Change


Culture Conducive to Governance as Leadership


Tools to Support a "Governance as Leadership-Friendly" Culture



What Governance as Leadership Requires of Leaders


Leadership



Measuring and Sustaining Governance as Leadership


Measuring Board Performance


Sustaining Governance as Leadership


Epilogue


References


Acknowledgments


The Author


Boardsource


Index