The Strategic Board: The Step-by-Step Guide to High-Impact Governance

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A SIMPLE PRACTICAL PLAN FOR BUILDING A GREAT EFFECTIVEBOARD Every nonprofit board wants to be great. But the reality is feware. Its one of the great puzzles of governance. How do you moldhighly talented individuals with diverse backgrounds limited time and no governance expertise into an effective board? The Strategic Board provides the answer. Drawing on more thantwenty years of nonprofit experience Mark Light outlines apractical model that overcomes the built-in deficiencies ofnonprofit boards and guides them to strategic effectiveness. TheStrategic Board(TM) model of governance is a step-by-step easy-to-implement multilevel course of action that enables a boardto craft a comprehensive Governance Plan(TM) that: Develops a Leadership Plan that determines "Where to gotomorrow?" Creates a Delegation Plan that specifies "Who does what?" Follows through with a Management Plan that decides "What getsdone today?" Puts in place a Vigilance Plan to answer the question "Did ithappen?" The Strategic Board approach doesnt dictate the answers. Rather it makes sure you ask all the right questions as you outline yourgoals and focus on achieving them. Its a uniquely flexibleblueprint for better functioning that will at last connect yourboards work about where you go tomorrow with your staffs work onwhat gets done today. Every nonprofit board dreams of greatness. Here are the tools toachieve it.