CarverGuide, Basic Principles of Policy Governance (J-B Carver Board Governance Series) (Vol 1) [Paperback]

John Carver (Author), Miriam Carver (Author)

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Publication Date: June 14, 1996 | ISBN-10: 0787902969 | ISBN-13: 978-0787902964 | Edition: 1

Offers board members a clear understanding of the concepts and principles that are at the very heart of John Carver's innovative Policy Governance model. Presents the guidelines needed to transform your board members into a unified group that consistently makes powerful contributions to its organization.

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Basic Principles of Policy Governance offers your board members a clear understanding of the concepts and principles that are at the very heart of John Carver's innovative Policy Governance model. The guide presents the guidelines needed to transform your board members into a unified group that consistently makes powerful contributions to its organization. Basic Principles of Policy Governance shows how to:

• Implement Policy Governance in nine easy steps
• Become a think tank for vision rather than a reviewer of staff decisions and activities
• Bring the diversity of a board's views to a single voice
• Determine the legitimacy of a particular committee
• Defuse the renegade board member
• Create board policies that embody the board's beliefs, commitments, values and vision
• Structure a board so it is defining and delegating rather than reacting and ratifying
• Free the board to provide leadership in exploring and creating strategic visioni

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Basic Principles of Policy Governance offers your board members a clear understanding of the concepts and principles that are at the very heart of John Carver's innovative Policy Governance model. The guide presents the guidelines needed to transform your board members into a unified group that consistently makes powerful contributions to its organization.
Basic Principles of Policy Governance shows how to:

• Implement Policy Governance in nine easy steps
  
• Become a think tank for vision rather than a reviewer of staff decisions and activities
  
• Bring the diversity of a board's views to a single voice
  
• Determine the legitimacy of a particular committee
  
• Defuse the renegade board member
  
• Create board policies that embody the board's beliefs, commitments, values and vision
  
• Structure a board so it is defining and delegating rather than reacting and ratifying
  
• Free the board to provide leadership in exploring and creating strategic visioni
  

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Product Details

• Paperback: 32 pages
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass; 1 edition (June 14, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0787902969
• ISBN-13: 978-0787902964
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.8 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #828,057 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

John Carver is internationally known as the creator of the breakthrough in board leadership called the Policy Governance model and is the best-selling author of Boards ThatMake a Difference (1990, 1997, 2006). He is co-editor (with his wife, Miriam Carver) of the bimonthly periodical Board Leadership, author of over 180 articles published in nine countries, and author or co-author of six books. For over thirty years, he has worked internationally with governing boards, his principal practice being in the United States and Canada. Dr. Carver is an editorial review board member of Corporate Governance: An International Review, adjunct professor in the University of Georgia Institute for Nonprofit Organizations, and formerly adjunct professor in York University's Schulich School of Business.

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35 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent overview of Carver's Policy Governance theory ., October 29, 1998

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This review is from: CarverGuide, Basic Principles of Policy Governance (J-B Carver Board Governance Series) (Vol 1) (Paperback)

This first in a 12-part series of general guides on Policy Governance is a great introduction to author John Carver's new approach to nonprofit board development. Basically, this approach clearly separates the roles of board and staff as they go about their separate but related jobs of organizational governance and management. Policy Governance clarifies these roles through policy development and permits the board---governing as a body---to control the management and direction of the organization in a global policy approach. This guide is a good start in grasping the concepts of the approach.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Carver guides are very god for the non profit board, July 19, 2005

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This review is from: CarverGuide, Basic Principles of Policy Governance (J-B Carver Board Governance Series) (Vol 1) (Paperback)

This is the secong not-for-profit organization that I have directed. I have used this guide and the subsequent Carver guides to help with organizing and direction setting. Volunteer board members always respond well to the material. It is easy to understand yet the Carver model is very comprehensive. I would recommend this to any organization that is engaged in charitable work.