The High-Performance Board: Principles of Nonprofit Organization Governance - Brossura

D. Pointer, Dennis

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ISBN 10: 078795697X ISBN 13: 9780787956974

Casa editrice: John Wiley & Sons, 2002

Riassunto

While boards acknowledge they bear ultimate responsibility and accountability for their organizations' affairs, governance quality is often far from optimal. The High- Performance Board offers pragmatic and candid advice about what your board must do to maximize performance and contributions. The authors provide sixty-four principles designed to help your board achieve peak performance. They describe every principle in detail and present best practices and practical applications for each one. Each section of the book concludes with a board check-up-a set of questions that can be used to assess your board in light of the principles. A quick read for busy board members, this book is the ultimate board "drivers' manual."

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Informazioni sull?autore

Dennis D. Pointer has worked with more than four hundred clients as a consultant, retreat facilitator, and speaker. His firm, Dennis D. Pointer & Associates, provides governance consulting, retreat facilitation, assessment, redesign, and development services to nonprofit organizations, commercial corporations, and government agencies. He is vice president and partner, American Governance and Leadership group LLC. Pointer is also Hanlon Professor of Health Policy and Research, San Diego State University. He is also the Austin Ross Professor, Department of Health Services, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington (Seattle).
James E. (Jamie) Orlikoff is president of Orlikoff and Associates, Inc., a firm specializing in governance improvement and leadership development. He is executive director of the American Governance and Leadership Group LLC and the national advisor on governance and leadership to the American Hospital Association. In these various capacities, he has worked with over six hundred organizations to strengthen their governance effectiveness and efficiency. Orlikoff serves on the board of trustees of Pitzer College in Claremont, California.

Dal risvolto di copertina interno

Dennis D. Pointer and James E. Orlikoff--two of the country's most experienced and successful governance consultants--show you the way. Drawing on their combined forty years of professional practice, the authors provide sixty-four practical principles a nonprofit board can use to dramatically improve its performance and contributions.

The High-Performance Board is a concise, quick read for board members and executives of nonprofit organizations who want great governance and are serious about achieving it.

Pointer and Orlikoff identify the factors that most affect governance quality--obligations, functions (responsibilities and roles), structure, composition, and infrastructure--and build their principles on these critical areas. They provide recommendations to help your board begin to adopt the book's principles and formulate an action plan for a continuous improvement. At the end of each section they present a board check-up to help assess how well your board is doing in light of best-practices principles. In the final chapter, these check-ups are combined to produce a governance performance profile.

The authors' principle-based governance demands that board members step up and meet the challenge of improved performance. This book gives them the information and guidance they need to do so.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: John Wiley & Sons
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 078795697X
• ISBN 13: 9780787956974
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 212
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile