Doug Eadie Blog
Joanna Pinkerton and Emille Williams Discuss the CEO-COO Partnership at COTA
This "Greatest Hit" post originally appeared at www.boardsavvytransitceo.com in January 2020. It is even more relevant today than three years ago...
David Schuler on Preparing Aspiring Superintendents for the Top Spot
This post, featuring my video interview with Dave Schuler, incoming Executive Director of the American Association of School Administrators,...
Well-Designed Retreats Can Be Powerful Governing Vehicles
Retreats have become a popular vehicle for involving nonprofit board members, their CEOs, and executives in accomplishing high-impact governing work...
Don’t Unwittingly Invite Board Micromanagement!
A superintendent called me recently, asking if I’d be interested in presenting a governance training workshop for her school board. She explained...
CEO Leadership on the Governance Front: Reflections on an Emerging New Model
This is how the chief executive officer of a large, urban public transit system responded to my question about engaging his board in the annual...
Creating Board Development Champions
You might recall that a year or so ago, we posted two articles on the subject of board capacity building – what is popularly known as board...
Turning Board Members Into Board Development Champions
You might recall that a year or so ago, we posted two articles on the subject of board capacity building – what is popularly known as board...
Creating Board Development Champions
My February 25 post described two vehicles for developing your board’s governing capacity that we discussed in my pre-conference workshop at AASA’s...
Really Board-Savvy CEOs Know Enough To Avoid Recruiting Letterhead Board Members
Several posts at this blog have described what I call “insidious foes” of a solid board-CEO working relationship. These are erroneous assumptions...
Leaving Administrators Out of the Governance Improvement Loop a Costly Mistake
Mea Culpa! One of the more egregious errors I made early in my career as a K-12 governance consultant and coach was allowing myself to be pressured...
