Building and maintaining close, positive, productive, and enduring working relationships with key internal and external stakeholders is now widely...
Nathan Ohle Puts Stakeholder Relations Front and Center in Taking the Helm at IEDC
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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...
Boosting the Governing IQ of the CEO-Aspirants on Your Executive Team
I recently conducted a one-on-one coaching session with a newly minted CEO who – six months into his CEO-ship – had run into serious trouble with...
IEDC’s Jeff Finkle: Chief Organizational Architect Extraordinaire
Several posts at this blog have explored the various roles that highly successful nonprofit chief executive officers play – the functional “hats”...
Jeff Finkle: Master of the Nonprofit Governing Game
Since Jeff Finkle’s recent announcement of his impending retirement as the long-serving President/CEO of the International...
Hitting the Ground Running With Your New Board: The Board Chair-CEO Partnership
In the video interview featured in last week’s post at this blog, Jeff Finkle and Craig Richard astutely observe that one of the key building blocks...
Jeff Finkle and Craig Richard on Hitting the Ground Running With Your New Board
Our readers are no doubt aware of our recent decision to focus our Extraordinary CEO blog on leadership in the economic and...
What, Me Afraid of a Big Board?
A little over four years ago, Jeff Finkle, President of the International Economic Development Council, and Virginia Jacko,...
Using the CEO Evaluation Process to Help Cement Your Partnership With the Board
As always, I learned as much as I taught from the economic development chief executives participating in the workshop I presented on February 10 at...
High-Level Volunteering at the Tampa Hillsborough EDC Isn’t Confined to Governing
As our readers well know, serving on a governing board is only one type of volunteering in a nonprofit organization. High-level non-governing work...