CarverGuide, Your Roles and Responsibilities as a Board Member (J-B Carver Board Governance Series) - Softcover

Carver, John; Carver, Miriam

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0787902977 ISBN 13: 9780787902971

Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 1996

Synopsis

Shows how board members must be successful strategic leaders, willing to cherish diversity, strive for accountability, and pinpoint board positions, for the good of the organization. Describes the essentials of the board member's job, and relates the job to Carver's Policy Governance model.

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From the Back Cover:

In this Carver Guide, the authors show how board members can be successful strategic leaders, willing to cherish diversity, strive for accountability, and pinpoint board positions, for the good of the organization. Your Roles and Responsibilities as a Board Member describes the essentials of the board member's job, and relates the job to Carver's Policy Governance model—which makes it possible to craft plans that define the essential areas of board job performance.
Your Roles and Responsibilities as a Board Member shows how to:

• Decide when a board meeting should be hands-on and when to be hands-off
  
• Represent the broad ownership of the organization, not a single consituency
  
• Honor divergent opinions without being intimidated by them
  
• Use every board member's special expertise to help other members get a broader understanding of the issues
  
• Train yourselv to examine, question, and define the big picture
  
• Focus your energies on making a difference in the larger world rather than on managing your staff
  
• Tolerate issues that cannot be quickly settled

About the Author:

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).

About this edition

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0787902977
• ISBN 13: 9780787902971
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 24