Basic Principles of Policy Governance (Carverguide Series on Effective Board Governance, 1) - Softcover

Carver, John; Carver, Miriam Mayhew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0787902969 ISBN 13: 9780787902964

Verlag: Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S., 1996

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Offers board members a clear understanding of the concepts and principles that are at the very heart of John Carver's innovative Policy Governance model. Presents the guidelines needed to transform your board members into a unified group that consistently makes powerful contributions to its organization.

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JOHN CARVER is internationally known as creator of the breakthrough in board leadership called the Policy Governance model and is the bestselling author of Boards That Make a Difference (1990). Dr. Carver has worked with boards in the U.S. and Canada and on four other continents for over twenty years. His clients have included the National Association of State Boards of Education, the National Ballet of Canada, the American Institute of Architects, the Pentagon Federal Credit Union and Lutheran World Relief. His ideas have been featured by the National League of Cities, the London Times, the Canadian Hospital Association, the American Society of Association Executives, Georgia Power company and many others. MIRIAM MAYHEW CARVER has consulted using the Policy Governance model in the U.S., Canada and England with a wide variety of organizations. A Canadian citizen, Mrs. Carver is former Executive Director of Canada's first AIDS hospice and a federation of counseling programs in Ontario. She is co-author with Dr. Carver of A New Vision of Board Leadership: Governing the Community College (1994).

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Basic Principles of Policy Governance offers your board members a clear understanding of the concepts and principles that are at the very heart of John Carver's innovative Policy Governance model. The guide presents the guidelines needed to transform your board members into a unified group that consistently makes powerful contributions to its organization.
Basic Principles of Policy Governance shows how to:

• Implement Policy Governance in nine easy steps
  
• Become a think tank for vision rather than a reviewer of staff decisions and activities
  
• Bring the diversity of a board's views to a single voice
  
• Determine the legitimacy of a particular committee
  
• Defuse the renegade board member
  
• Create board policies that embody the board's beliefs, commitments, values and vision
  
• Structure a board so it is defining and delegating rather than reacting and ratifying
  
• Free the board to provide leadership in exploring and creating strategic visioni
  

• Implement Policy Governance in nine easy steps
• Become a think tank for vision rather than a reviewer of staff decisions and activities
• Bring the diversity of a board's views to a single voice
• Determine the legitimacy of a particular committee
• Defuse the renegade board member
• Create board policies that embody the board's beliefs, commitments, values and vision
• Structure a board so it is defining and delegating rather than reacting and ratifying
• Free the board to provide leadership in exploring and creating strategic visioni

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• Verlag: Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0787902969
• ISBN 13: 9780787902964
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 26
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