The Practitioner′s Guide to Governance as Leadersh ip – Building High – Performing Nonprofit Boards

<p>List of Exhibits, Figures, and Tables xiii</p>
<p>Foreword xvii<br /> by Richard Chait</p>
<p>Preface xxi</p>
<p>CHAPTER 1: THE GOVERNANCE AS LEADERSHIP MODEL 1</p>
<p>Premises 2</p>
<p>Underlying Assumptions 2</p>
<p>Governance Reform 3</p>
<p>The Three Modes or Mental Maps 4</p>
<p>Why Three Modes? 14</p>
<p>CHAPTER 2: GETTING STARTED AND GAINING TRACTION WITH GOVERNANCE AS LEADERSHIP 21</p>
<p>What Is Optimized at Board Meetings? 22</p>
<p>What Is Different about Generative Governance? 22</p>
<p>Moving to Higher Purpose and Optimizing Performance:</p>
<p>Beginning the Conversation 23</p>
<p>Moving to Higher Purpose and Optimizing Performance: Getting Started 26</p>
<p>Moving to Higher Purpose and Optimizing Performance: Getting Traction 33</p>
<p>CHAPTER 3: ENCOURAGING CRITICAL THINKING IN THE BOARDROOM 47</p>
<p>Critical Thinking and Metacognition 48</p>
<p>Getting on the Balcony 50</p>
<p>Ways of Thinking 51</p>
<p>Impediments to Critical Thinking 54</p>
<p>Cognitive Biases and Board Workarounds 62</p>
<p>Social Loafing 70</p>
<p>Groupthink 71</p>
<p>Avoiding Groupthink and Its Close Cousins 77</p>
<p>CHAPTER 4: TURNING YOUR BOARD INTO A HIGH–PERFORMING TEAM 85</p>
<p>Social Systems 86</p>
<p>Groups and Teams 87</p>
<p>Boards as Teams 89</p>
<p>Effective Board Teams in the Context of Governance as Leadership 91</p>
<p>CHAPTER 5: CREATING A GOVERNANCE–AS–LEADERSHIP CULTURE 125</p>
<p>Culture 126</p>
<p>Three Toxic Cultures 128</p>
<p>Culture Change 131</p>
<p>Culture Conducive to Governance as Leadership 132</p>
<p>Tools to Support a Governance as Leadership Friendly Culture 143</p>
<p>CHAPTER 6: WHAT GOVERNANCE AS LEADERSHIP REQUIRES OF LEADERS 169</p>
<p>Leadership 170</p>
<p>CHAPTER 7: MEASURING AND SUSTAINING GOVERNANCE AS LEADERSHIP 187</p>
<p>Measuring Board Performance 188</p>
<p>Sustaining Governance as Leadership 211</p>
<p>EPILOGUE 215</p>
<p>REFERENCES 217</p>
<p>ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 221</p>
<p>THE AUTHOR 227</p>
<p>BOARDSOURCE 229</p>
<p>INDEX 231</p>