Description: The Practitioner's Guide to Governance as Leadership offers a resource that shows how to achieve excellence and peak performance in the boardroom by putting into practice the groundbreaking model that was introduced in the book, Governance as Leadership. This proven model of effective governance explores how to attain proficiency in three governance modes or mindsets: fiduciary, strategic, and generative.Throughout the book, author Cathy Trower offers an understanding of the Governance as Leadership model through a wealth of illustrative examples of high-performing nonprofit boards. She explores the challenges of implementing governance as leadership and suggests ideas for getting started and overcoming barriers to progress. In addition, Trower provides practical guidance for optimizing the practices that will improve organizational performance including: flow (high skill and high purpose), discernment, deliberation, divergent thinking, insight, meaningfulness, consequence to the organization, and integrity. In short, the book is a combination of sophisticated thinking, instructive vignettes, illustrative documents, and practical recommendations.The book includes concrete strategies that can help improve critical thinking in the boardroom, a board's overall performance as a team, as well as information for creating a strong governance culture and understanding what is required of an effective CEO and a chairperson. To determine a board's fitness and help the members move forward, the book contains three types of assessments: board members evaluate each other; individual board member assessments; and an overall team assessment.This practitioner's guide is written for nonprofit board members, chief executives, senior staff members, and anyone who wants to reflect on governance, discern how to govern better, and achieve higher performance in the process.
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Subject Area: Business & Economics
Book Title: The Practitioner's Guide to Governance as Leadership: Building Hi
Publication Name: The Practionr's Guide to Governance as Leadership
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Item Length: 9.4 in
Subject: Leadership, Corporate Governance, Nonprofit Organizations & Charities / Management & Leadership, Nonprofit Organizations & Charities / General
Publication Year: 2013
Type: Textbook
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Item Height: 0.8 in
Author: Cathy A. Trower
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Item Weight: 19.2 Oz
Item Width: 7.5 in
Number of Pages: 272 Pages
