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Gelman 609最后一堂课

PPPA 6034

Managing Nonprofit Boards

Session 3

Board Operation

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Best Practices

  • Enlistment process – criteria,

expectations, who invites

  • Orientation
  • The board book
  • Meeting formats: what matters most

(versus show and tell)?

  • Meeting planning and consent agendas

Ted's board

  • Committee structure
  • Self assessments, retreats
  • Board culture – role of the chair

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Issues/Questions

  • Terms limits – pros and cons

  • Board size

  • Board dysfunction

(False consensus bias)

(Social loafing)

(Groupthink)

(Social conformity)

Principles of Board Thinking
(Trower, 2013)

  • Metacognition – ability to analyze one’s own thought process (necessary to strike balance between existing world views and rethinking core assumptions)
  • Hedgehogs versus foxes – Hedgehogs view the world thorough one single lens; foxes draw on a large body of experience
  • Boardroom lions versus humble hounds – Lions relentless for change; hounds spend a lot of time on metacognition
  • Trower: Board needs a mix of hedgehogs and foxes, lions and humble hounds
  • Obstacles to critical thinking: fear of being wrong; being certain; diagnosis momentum; loss aversion; delusions of human rationality; framing

Five Dysfunctions of a Team
Patrick Lencioni

Resolving Board Conflicts
(Terry’s Hierarchy)

Purposes

Power

Structure and procedure

Resources

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Three Approaches

  • Chait, Ryan, and Taylor:

Governance as Leadership

  • John Carver:

Policy Governance

  • Herman and Heimovics:

Board-Centered Leadership