Reinventing Your Board

John Carver, Miriam Carver

304 pages, parution le 06/04/2006 (3^eme édition)

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In the second edition of this best-selling Policy Governance operating manual, John Carver and Miriam Carver make this exciting approach to effective governance even more accessible and user-friendly, gleaning lessons learned in years of practice to help readers understand and use this invaluable model.

Carver's groundbreaking Policy Governance model is the best-known, respected, and talked about governance model in the world and has fundamentally influenced the way organizations are governed. Reinventing Your Board, second edition, is a hands-on, step-by-step guide that puts the model to work in the meeting-to-meeting lives of board members. It includes new policy samples and a new chapter on monitoring performance, as well as other practical "put-the-model-in-motion" advice. This popular and highly successful companion to Boards That Make a Difference contains the nuts-and-bolts materials needed for implementing Policy Governance. The authors illustrate effective board decision making, show how to craft useful policies, and offer practical advice on such matters as setting the agenda, monitoring CEO performance, defining the board role, and more. Step-by-step instructions and sample policies make this a must-have resource for boards in the public and nonprofit sectors aiming to govern their organizations with excellence.

L'auteur - John Carver

John Carver is known internationally as the creator of the breakthrough in board leadership called the Policy Governance Model. He has worked with boards in the United States and Canada as well as on four other continents for over twenty-five 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, Lutheran World Relief and the American Cancer Society. He is author of the bi-monthly newsletter workshop Board Leadership and his books have sold over 250,000 copies around the world.

Sommaire

Preparing for Change
- Setting the Stage: Are You Sure You're Ready for This?
- The Theoretical Foundation: The Practicality of Sound Theory
- Deciding to Implement Policy Governance: Looking Before You Leap
Crafting Policies
- Executive Limitations Policies: Optimizing Empowerment by Setting Limits
- Governance Process Policies: Defining the Board's Job
- Board-Management Delegation Policies: Linking Governance to the CEO
- Ends Policies: The Real Bottom Line
Ready, Steady, Go
- Monitoring Organizational Performance: Getting the Right Information About the Right Things
- The Board's Documents: Preserving the Board's Decisions
- Implementation and Beyond: Concrete Steps Mirror Conceptual Integrity
- Resources
- A A Sample Board Policy Manual
- B Sample Ends Policies
- C Sample Monitoring Reports
- D Selected Readings

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Jossey-Bass
Auteur(s)	John Carver, Miriam Carver
Parution	06/04/2006
Édition	3^eme édition
Nb. de pages	304
Format	16 x 24
Couverture	Relié
Poids	535g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780787981815
ISBN13	978-0-7879-8181-5