“As a member of the leadership team, each person is responsible for fulfilling the following roles… Supporter of the CEO, supporting and advancing the CEO’s agenda both publicly and privately.” Nadler & Nadler, “Performance on the Executive Team: When to pull the trigger” in Executive Teams. Throw a stone into calm water and some waves will ripple [...]
Staff leadership at the board table
At the same time that many senior staff leaders have been hired to provide organizational leadership to Christian charities, most of these leaders have also been excluded from the organization’s highest leadership body, the board. Exclusion could be due to the law, a governance model, or even just sensitivity to the public’s demand for greater [...]
“Which governance style is for us?”
The question many people ask about governance models isn’t the one they should be asking. The way I often hear the question, people think the choice is between policy boards, management boards and working boards. Their question usually is, “Which type of board should we have?” as if these types are mutually-exclusive choices. I will be [...]
Rev. John Pellowe, MBA, DMin
