The High-Performance Board: Principles of Nonprofit Organization Governance / Edition 1

by Dennis D. Pointer, James E. Orlikoff

Overview

While boards acknowledge they bear ultimate responsibility and accountability for their organizations' affairs, governance quality is often far from optimal. The High- Performance Board offers pragmatic and candid advice about what your board must do to maximize performance and contributions. The authors provide sixty-four principles designed to help your board achieve peak performance. They describe every principle in detail and present best practices and practical applications for each one. Each section of the book concludes with a board check-up-a set of questions that can be used to assess your board in light of the principles. A quick read for busy board members, this book is the ultimate board "drivers' manual."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780787956974
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	05/22/2002
Series:	Jossey-Bass NonProfit and Public Managem
Edition description:	1ST
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	6.24(w) x 9.39(h) x 0.83(d)

About the Author

Dennis D. Pointer has worked with more than four hundred clients asa consultant, retreat facilitator, and speaker. His firm, Dennis D.Pointer & Associates, provides governance consulting, retreatfacilitation, assessment, redesign, and development services tononprofit organizations, commercial corporations, and governmentagencies. He is vice president and partner, American Governance andLeadership group LLC. Pointer is also Hanlon Professor of HealthPolicy and Research, San Diego State University. He is also theAustin Ross Professor, Department of Health Services, School ofPublic Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington(Seattle).
James E. (Jamie) Orlikoff is president of Orlikoff and Associates,Inc., a firm specializing in governance improvement and leadershipdevelopment. He is executive director of the American Governanceand Leadership Group LLC and the national advisor on governance andleadership to the American Hospital Association. In these variouscapacities, he has worked with over six hundred organizations tostrengthen their governance effectiveness and efficiency. Orlikoffserves on the board of trustees of Pitzer College in Claremont,California.

Table of Contents

Figures and Check-Ups.

Preface.

About the Authors.

1. Governance Basics.

2. Obligations.

3. Functioning: Responsibilities.

4. Functioning: Roles.

5. Structure.

6. Composition.

7. Infrastructure.

8. Transforming Your Board.

Resources.

A. The Sixty-Four Principles.

B. Illustrative Board Policies.

C. Sample Committee Charters.

D. Illustrative Board Chair Position Description.

E. Illustrative Governance Principles.

F. For Further Reading.

Index.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"What a terrific addition to the bookshelf for governing boards of nonprofit organizations! It is clearly written, well organized, and highly practical."
—Thomas P. Holland, professor and director, Institute for Nonprofit Organizations University of Georgia School of Social Work

"I learned more about nonprofit governance from this book than I have serving on boards for fifteen years."
—Art Ulene, former NBC Today Show medical commentator and director, The Vitality Challenge

"Pointer and Orlikoff show how great boards can truly transform our institutions. This is an innovative guide for benchmarking and improving governance."
—Marilyn Chapin Massey, president, Pitzer College, Claremont, California

Editorial Reviews

"What a terrific addition to the bookshelf for governing boards ofnonprofit organizations! It is clearly written, well organized, andhighly practical."
—Thomas P. Holland, professor and director, Institute forNonprofit Organizations University of Georgia School of Social Work

"I learned more about nonprofit governance from this book than Ihave serving on boards for fifteen years."
—Art Ulene, former NBC Today Show medical commentator anddirector, The Vitality Challenge

"Pointer and Orlikoff show how great boards can truly transformour institutions. This is an innovative guide for benchmarking andimproving governance."
—Marilyn Chapin Massey, president, Pitzer College, Claremont,California

From the Publisher