Reinventing Your Board

A Step-By-Step Guide to Implementing Policy Governance
2. Revised Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-7879-8181-5
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 237 mm, Gewicht: 536 g

In the second edition of this best-selling Policy Governance operating manual, John Carver and Miriam Carver make this exciting approach to effective governance even more accessible and user-friendly, gleaning lessons learned in years of practice to help readers understand and use this invaluable model.

Carver’s groundbreaking Policy Governance model is the best-known, respected, and talked about governance model in the world and has fundamentally influenced the way organizations are governed. Reinventing Your Board, second edition, is a hands-on, step-by-step guide that puts the model to work in the meeting-to-meeting lives of board members. It includes new policy samples and a new chapter on monitoring performance, as well as other practical “put-the-model-in-motion” advice. This popular and highly successful companion to Boards That Make a Difference contains the nuts-and-bolts materials needed for implementing Policy Governance. The authors illustrate effective board decision making, show how to craft useful policies, and offer practical advice on such matters as setting the agenda, monitoring CEO performance, defining the board role, and more. Step-by-step instructions and sample policies make this a must-have resource for boards in the public and nonprofit sectors aiming to govern their organizations with excellence.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Carver, John

Carver, Miriam

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Literatur für Manager
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Policies vii

Figures and Exhibits xi

Preface to the Revised Edition xiii

Preface xvii

Acknowledgments xxi

The Authors xxiii

Part One: Preparing for Change

1. Setting the Stage: Are You Sure You’re Ready for This? 3

2. The Theoretical Foundation: The Practicality of Sound Theory 17

3. Deciding to Implement Policy Governance: Looking Before You Leap 37

Part Two: Crafting Policies

4. Executive Limitations Policies: Optimizing Empowerment by Setting Limits 65

5. Governance Process Policies: Defining the Board’s Job 103

6. Board-Management Delegation Policies: Linking Governance to the CEO 133

7. Ends Policies: The Real Bottom Line 151

Part Three: Ready, Steady, Go

8. Monitoring Organizational Performance: Getting the Right Information About the Right Things 179

9. The Board’s Documents: Preserving the Board’s Decisions 199

10. Implementation and Beyond: Concrete Steps Mirror Conceptual Integrity 219

Resources

A. A Sample Board Policy Manual 233

B. Sample Ends Policies 257

C. Sample Monitoring Reports 269

D. Selected Readings 295

Index 297

Über Autor(innen)

THE AUTHORS

John Carver is internationally recognized as creator of the breakthrough in board leadership known as the Policy Governance model. He has worked with boards in all sectors on five cont nents for over twenty-five years. Carver is coeditor of the bimonthly Board Leadership, featured speaker in the video John Carver on Board Governance and the audiotape Empowering Boards for Leadership, author of the books Boards That Make a Difference and John Carver on Board Leadership, and coauthor of the CarverGuide Series on Effective Board Governance and Corporate Boards That Create Value.

Miriam Carver has worked with boards in both public and nonprofit sectors in North America, Europe, and Southeast Asia. She is coeditor of the bimonthly Board Leadership and coauthor of the books A New Vision of Board Leadership, The Board Member's Playbook, and the CarverGuide Series on Effective Board Governance.