Transformational Governance: How Boards Achieve Extraordinary Change
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Transformational Governance provides membership associations and other nonprofit boards insight on how to implement effective governance change. Rather than focusing on the behaviors and qualities of the individuals who serve, light is shed on the processes board members and staff use to transform their boards. Armed with ASAE Foundation funded research, this title fills a void in governance literature by emphasizing diagnosis and problem solving. The book also offers illustrative examples and interesting case stories from a wide range of nonprofits.
- Apply lessons learned from 14 original and illustrative governance case stories about achieving transformative change.
- Focus on stages and processes to create transformative change rather than behaviors and qualities of board members.
- Capture vital information about who or what can be catalysts for change and how much time should be invested in the process.
- Observe documented journeys on how boards have genuinely created change at the leadership level.
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The CausePlanet Team –
Transformational Governance highlights 14 interesting and original case stories that describe the route to genuine governance change as experienced by actual association leaders, including solar power manufacturers, summer camp professionals, estate planners, private school administrators and more. Each story introduces critical information such as the catalysts for change, how change agents were identified and what resources were necessary to apply strategies and tools for transformation. CEOs, board members, scholars, students, association managers and consultants will find this title especially helpful in collaborating with each other to create governance change.