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Culture in an organization is comprised of shared values, goals, norms and processes. One overarching theme uncovered in studying...

Defining governance is not easy. If you google “definition on governance,” you will find over 500,000 entries. Governance is a generic...

Last week, President Obama spoke of a “failure of leadership” at GM. What happens to GM affects their employees, vendors, retirees,...

An update to what was written here. This group is still together but we’ve moved beyond Policy Governance to conceptualizing what it...

The Little Red Hen was an industrious little hen. From a few seeds, she had a vision of a beautifully golden, richly fragrant loaf of...

The ad reads: “Car ‘phones. They’re no longer the privilege of the chosen few.” In 1982, I actually had one of these Vodaphone babies. I...

Decided that diary is the wrong word. Even though I’m chronicling my foibles and attempts at online networking, the day of the post...

When a board spends most of its time reviewing what happened in the past (e.g., monthly reports or budget reports), it is merely...

Nonprofits are failing at a high rate (e.g., Flanagan, 2012; Nonprofit Trends, 2014). Despite strategic planning and fund development,...

In the May 30, 2014 New York Times Sunday Review | Opinion, Schwartz and Porath discussed why Americans hate work. The authors cited a...

Expectations of nonprofit boards – and of those who serve on them – are established by tradition and maintained by the status quo...

Strickland and Vaughn assert that integrity in an organization is built on foundational values, such as accountability. In a series of...

But we don’t. Over 15 years ago Brown (2005, p. 317) concluded, "...much work remains to be done to establish the nature and...direction"...

A few governance consultant colleagues and I are experimenting with Blab. Blab is a terrific forum for group video broadcasting and live...