Extraordinary Board Leadership: The Keys to High Impact Governing

Many nonprofits never take full advantage of their board members. Extraordinary Board Leadership: The Keys to Governing deals with an incredibly important topic - "high-impact governing" - which is at the heart not only of a nonprofit's effectiveness, but also the key to a positive, productive, and enduring board-CEO partnership. This text offers practical, hands-on guidance, which is based on in-depth real-life experience and can be put to immediate use. It goes beyond the old-fashioned "policy governance" approach - beyond the rules - in dealing with the board-CEO-executive staff partnership. The 2nd edition of this successful book includes more case studies and new information aimed at public governing bodies, as well as more tables and charts to accompany a fresh new text design.
Doug Eadie is the founder and president of Doug Eadie & Company. Over the past 25 years, Doug has consulted with over 500 nonprofit and public organizations in the areas of board and chief executive leadership and strategic change management. Developer of the High-Impact Governing Model, Doug is the author of sixteen books on public and nonprofit leadership in addition to Extraordinary Board Leadership, which the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) selected to receive its H.S. Warwick Research Award for 2002. Before founding his consulting practice, Doug held a variety of public and nonprofit executive positions, including state and city budget director and community college vice president. He served as a Peace Corps Volunteer for three years, teaching ancient history and English at the Tafari Makonnen Secondary School in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Doug is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana and received his master of science in management degree from the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University. Doug and his wife Barbara Krai reside in Oldsmar, Florida.