This book uses a light-hearted look at the animal characteristics displayed by human board members to make serious points about such perpetual challenges as goal setting, power struggles and nonproductive behavior. Bradner, a nationally known consultant on not-for-profit and volunteer activity, offers practical guidelines for the role of the chair, the executive director and the board member in making board meetings more satisfying for all participants. The guide is helpful reading for volunteers and paid staff alike, whether on social service, arts, church, education, professional or governmental boards.
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Serving on a board is like taking a stroll through the Amazon rain forest; it's a jungle full of the most amazing animals that you have to deal with continuously. Now, howver, intrepid board members have a guide book that identifies those animals and tells you how to manage them....Bradner's new work is a handbook for any member of any kind of board who wants to carry out his or her duties effectively while avoiding the many pitfalls that can sabotage that goal.... -- Pioneer Press: November 23, 1995
The Board Member's Guide: A Beneficial Bestiary presents a lighthearted look at serving on a nonprofit board of directors. A cartoon menagerie of 15 animals representing pesonality traits of board members, decorates practical advice on nonprofit management. Denizens of Ms. Bradner's bestiary include the elephant, who is unwilling to try new ideas because she never forgets the old ones that failed, and the wolf who marks his territory and believes himself to be the expert on everything. The author is a consultant on nonprofit management and leadership develoment; the illustrator, Carl R. Granath, is a newspaper cartoonist and animator. -- The Chronicle of Philanthropy, June 13, 1996
The Board Member's Guide: A Beneficial Bestiary presents a lighthearted look at serving on a nonprofit board of directors. A cartoon menagerie of 15 animals representing pesonality traits of board members, decorates practical advice on nonprofit management. Denizens of Ms. Bradner's bestiary include the elephant, who is unwilling to try new ideas because she never forgets the old ones that failed, and the wolf who marks his territory and believes himself to be the expert on everything. The author is a consultant on nonprofit management and leadership develoment; the illustrator, Carl R. Granath, is a newspaper cartoonist and animator. -- The Chronicle of Philanthropy, June 13, 1996
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This book does not pretend to be either a comprehensive text book on the legal obligations of board directors or a detailed manual on board management. Instead, it offers an easy-to-read-and-remember guide to effective board behavior for the board member, the board chair and the organization's chief staff officer. Those who take these guidelines to heart will find they help the organizations they lead to function well, they reach more of their personal goals and they have more fun doing it.
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You are invited to serve on the board of an organization - religious, fraternal, governmental, educational, social service, professional, cultural. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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