Reinventing Your Board
Revised Edition
J-B Carver Board Governance Series
1. Edition March 2006
336 Pages, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Short Description
This hands-on, step-by-step guide puts Carver's revolutionary Policy Governance Model to work in the real world. In Boards That Make a Difference, John Carver introduced the Policy Governance Model, a highly effective, results-oriented approach to nonprofit board governance. In Reinventing Your Board, Revised Edition John Carver and Miriam Carver show how to put the model into motion and take organizations to new levels of achievement. Carver is the author of the first edition of Reinventing Your Board (0-7879-0911-4).
"After reading Boards That Make a Difference and studying the theory behind John Carver's approach to improving the functioning of boards, this book is a natural next stage for a board committed to improving its capacity. Reinventing Your Board is a must."
-Mike Whitlam, adviser, UK Office of Communications (Ofcom) and former director general, British Red Cross Society, London
"This book has been an invaluable resource for our board members as we have adopted the Policy Governance model. It is an excellent road map for the implementation of the model, answering many practical questions and providing numerous examples of applications in a variety of settings. I strongly recommend it for any board wishing to improve its effectiveness."
-Sister Patricia Lorenz, CSJ, board chair, Carondelet Health, Kansas City, Missouri
"This clear and chair-friendly book is the ultimate how-to manual for a board determined to ensure the future as they would envision it. No chairman should be without it. "
-George Dessart, former chair, board of directors, American Cancer Society, Atlanta
"John Carver is a revolutionary of the very best kind. Carver's Policy Governance model has provided the means for trustees to live out Greenleaf's challenge to boards to act as both servant and leader."
-Larry C. Spears, CEO, The Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership; editor, Reflections on Leadership, Insights on Leadership, Servant Leadership, and The Power of Servant Leadership; coeditor, Practicing Servant Leadership and Focus on Leadership
"What I value about John Carver's thinking is that it provides a logical and coherent base, a unifying theory of governance that covers both the corporate and voluntary sectors, a universal definition of the difference between governance and management rather than the more usual approach of attempting to allocate functions between them."
-Sir Adrian Cadbury, former chancellor, Aston University; former director, Bank of England; chairman, UK Committee on Financial Aspects of Corporate Governance (source of the "Cadbury Report"); recipient of the 2001 International Corporate Governance Network award; author of The Company Chairman and Corporate Governance and Chairmanship
Figures and Exhibits.
Preface to the Second Edition.
Preface.
Acknowledgments.
The Authors.
PART ONE. PREPARING FOR CHANGE.
1. Setting the Stage: Are You Sure You're Ready for This?.
2. The Theoretical Foundation: The Practicality of Sound Theory.
3. Deciding to Implement Policy Governance: Looking Before You Leap.
PART TWO. CRAFTING POLICIES.
4. Executive Limitations Policies: Optimizing Empowerment by Setting Limits.
5. Governance Process Policies: Defining the Board's Job.
6. Board-Management Delegation Policies: Linking Governance to the CEO.
7. Ends Policies: The Real Bottom Line.
PART THREE. READY, STEADY, GO.
8. Monitoring Organizational Performance: Getting the Right Information About the Right Things.
9. The Board's Documents: Preserving the Board's Decisions.
10. Implementation and Beyond: Concrete Steps Mirror Conceptual Integrity.
Resources.
A. A Sample Board Policy Manual.
B. Sample Ends Policies.
C. Sample Monitoring Reports.
D. Selected Readings.
Index.
