The Practitioner's Guide to Governance as Leadership
Building High-Performing Nonprofit Boards
Will be published approx. on 29. January 2013
Book
Hardback
272 pages
978-1-118-10987-8 (ISBN)
Description
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 engagement.
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gebunden
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Paper over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 185 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
590 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-118-10987-8 (9781118109878)
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Cathy A. Trower
The Practitioner's Guide to Governance as Leadership
Building High-Performing Nonprofit Boards
E-Book
11/2012
Jossey-Bass
€63.99
Available for download
Cathy A. Trower
The Practitioner's Guide to Governance as Leadership
Building High-Performing Nonprofit Boards
E-Book
11/2012
Jossey-Bass
€63.99
Available for download
Person
Cathy A. Trower, PhD is a senior research associate at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education. She is author of the second edition of Richard Chait's book, Govern More, Manage Less. Cathy is nationally known for her expertise on board policies, leadership, structure, organizational change, best governance practices, and strategic planning. She is in high demand as a speaker, consultant, and advisor and works with nonprofit boards independently through her consulting firm, Trower and Trower, Inc.
Content
List of Exhibits
Foreword (Richard Chait)
Preface
1 What Is Governance as Leadership?
Premises
Underlying Assumptions
Governance Reform
The Three Modes or Mental Maps
Why Three Modes?
2 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
3 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
4 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
5 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
6 What Governance as Leadership Requires of Leaders
Adaptive and Technical Work
Adaptive Leadership
The Paradoxes of Adaptive Leaders
Boards as Viewed by Executives
The Effective CEO in General
The Effective Governance as Leadership CEO
The Effective Board Chair in General
The Effective Governance as Leadership Board Chair
The Dynamic Duo: CEO and Chair
7 Measuring and Sustaining Governance as Leadership
Measuring Board Performance
Sustaining Governance as Leadership
Epilogue
References
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Index