With less than two weeks until the 4th annual BoardEffect Users Conference on September 28th – 30th, the final count-down to kick-off has begun. This is unquestionably the biggest conference on our company’s yearly calendar; and it evokes in our team a powerful mixture of anticipation, enthusiasm, and an earnest ambition to improve upon prior…
In March 2012, BoardEffect published a research report titled “U.S. Laws Governing Nonprofit Boards and Electronic Voting.” The intent was to determine and demystify the legal parameters within which a board could use board portal technology to manage its voting procedures. And it was a huge hit; more than four years later, we continue to…
While researching a recent blog post on the topic of “effective board leadership,” I came across an article called “Developing Leadership on Boards of Directors” by Barbara Miller and Jeanne Bergman from a 2008 edition of The Journal of Nonprofit Management. While I don’t know the authors and wasn’t previously familiar with their work, I…
“Effective board leadership” is a hot topic. A Google search on the term yields about 2.87 million results, a few of which jump out as being quite informative. These range from the quick and useful “The 10 Habits of Highly Effective Boards” from AGB’s Trusteeship Magazine to the scholarly, comprehensive, and seemingly timeless “Developing Leadership…
This was originally posted on the Wharton Entrepreneurship Blog which you can read here. So, I admit it. I’ve attended a board meeting without feeling fully prepared. And not just once. I’ve done it many times when serving in many different roles: as a board member, as an entrepreneur and executive responsible for managing my own…
You have to hand it to Goldilocks. In addition to fearlessly entering ferocious bears’ dens, this young lady knew precisely what she liked. When it came to bowls of porridge (neither too hot, nor cold), easy-chairs (neither too hard, nor soft), and preferences in bedding (neither too high, nor low), Goldilocks was unwavering in what…
I’ve been asked a lot lately what a chief executive officer or nonprofit executive director needs from his / her board chair. My response is pretty simple: someone who has the organization’s best interests at heart and is open to having frank – but supportive – dialog about the things that keep the CEO awake…
In much of life, less is more. This is true when it comes to the length of speeches, weeks of winter, consumption of natural resources, and strokes in golf (to name only a few examples). This is also true in regards to paper in the board room. This prior BoardEffect post offers a valuable framework…
As I write this post, nearly thirty inches of snow have rendered millions of people homebound across the Mid-Atlantic region. Having passed hours of the weekend wandering the vast internet landscape, I’ve seen a number of catchy names for this epic storm, including “Snow-zilla,” “Snow-torious Jonas,” and “Snow-pocalypse II.” The last of these led me…
It’s that time of year again; time for New Year’s Resolutions. According to the Statistic Brain Research Institute, a full 45% of Americans “usually make New Year’s resolutions” and an additional 17% “who infrequently make New Year’s resolutions.” When we do make them, our resolutions tend to be about things that don’t come easily otherwise.…
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