The Accidental Board President
Although the position of board president is one of the most critical ones in a nonprofit, there is often little thought and intentionality put into the process of filling the position. I literally have seen board presidents elected because they left the room at the wrong time. Many of us have seen people elected as board president because they were the only ones whose arms could be twisted to take the job. Too many of us have seen the position filled by the person “next Read more
Where are the Level 5 Leaders?
Having just finished teaching a class on governance where we talk about the should haves and the ought tos, as well as the realities, the one that has grabbed my attention this round is the paucity of quality leaders—at both the paid and volunteer levels. In so many ways, leaders are, for the most part, at best average, and at worst well below.
Perhaps the most basic of the deficiencies is the failure to understand their jobs. It doesn’t take long working in a nonprofit to Read more
