Good Governance is a Choice A Way to Re-create Your Board_the Right Way

by Quinn, Randy; Dawson, Linda J.

• ISBN13: 9781610483131
• ISBN10: 1610483138
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-04-16
• Publisher: R&L Education

Summary

This book comes with a promise: after reading it, you will never again think of board work the same as before. Good Governance is a Choice is a book about, and for, boards of public and non-profit organizations. Its central focus is on public school boards and the special challenges they face, but the governing model it introduces, Coherent Governance , is applicable to any board of any type. Coherent Governance is a policy-based governing model that features a fail-proof means for creating absolute role clarity for boards and their CEOs. The model offers a process for boards to control operational decisions without making them, allowing them to spend the dominant part of their time on what matters_whether the organization is delivering the goods for the clients it serves. The authors challenge readers to consider themselves to be the very first board elected or appointed to serve their organization and to thoughtfully craft a governance role and board processes to allow them to best do their work_unencumbered by past practice and tradition. They draw from their combined 60-plus years of experience in working with public and non-profit boards as they present their state-of-the-art governing model.

Author Biography

Randy QUINN and LINDA J. DAWSON cofounded the Aspen Group International in 1993 following careers that together total more than sixty-five years of service to education and other nonprofit boards.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
Why Don't Boards Perform Better?	p. 1
What Does a High-Performing Board Look Like?	p. 9
Governing Coherently or Incoherently?	p. 17
Constructing the Board's Own Governing Culture	p. 27
The Board's Relationship with Its CEO-Part 1	p. 37
Controlling Operational Decisions without Helping the CEO Manage	p. 41
Becoming a Results-Driven Organization	p. 57
The Board's Relationship with Its CEO-Part 2	p. 65
Monitoring-Everything!	p. 71
Systemic Application and Alignment	p. 81
Governing Coherently: How Can a Board Transform Itself?	p. 87
Board Self-Assessment	p. 93
Operational Expectations Monitoring Report	p. 95
Results Monitoring Report	p. 113
Summative CEO Evaluation	p. 133
Glossary	p. 139
About the Authors	p. 143
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