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“In the short term, there is scant room for dreaming, for one must choose between being taken seriously and being visionary. In the long term, however, leadership cannot afford to overlook the wisdom of dreams, even the wisdom of playful dreaming. Vision that bounds higher than the barriers that confine us often spring from earnest playfulness.”
― Boards That Make a Difference: A New Design for Leadership in Nonprofit and Public Organizations
― Boards That Make a Difference: A New Design for Leadership in Nonprofit and Public Organizations
“The board's position is, therefore, to act as the link between owners and management, directing and controlling the company on the owners' behalf. Put another way, the reason owners grant such authority is to enable the board to act as the ownership in microcosm.”
― Corporate Boards That Create Value: Governing Company Performance from the Boardroom
― Corporate Boards That Create Value: Governing Company Performance from the Boardroom
“A move to the Policy Governance model looks straightforward because the logic behind the model is so clear. Precisely because it is driven by logic, it is uncompromising and cannot be bent to fit personalities in the way we usually treat our organizational structures. It requires a disciplined approach, and discipline is uncomfortable, perhaps especially for those of us used to moderately anarchic board procedures. The board has to discipline itself to deal with every issue through policy. This is considerably more demanding than making or agreeing to decisions as they arise and meddling in management from time to time. Thinking is hard work. Directors working under the Policy Governance model have to construct a framework that both gives the CEO a clear remit over the results to be achieved and sets the limits within which those results are to be achieved. The board has both to prescribe and to proscribe, as the authors point out.”
― Corporate Boards That Create Value: Governing Company Performance from the Boardroom
― Corporate Boards That Create Value: Governing Company Performance from the Boardroom
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