Anyone who has ever been on the board of a nonprofit organization will get a chuckle from this book. O'Connell, the founding president of Independent Sector, has spent decades attending board meetings. Now safely in the bosom of academia, he pokes gentle fun at well-meaning but often inept board members. Instead of telling us what transpires at board meetings, O'Connell allows the official minutes of an unnamed charity to speak for him. Each month, the board of the fictitious charity has a meeting and the faithful secretary takes it down (errors and all). At the end of the year, the board has accomplished very little, but the reader has had some good laughs. Recommended for public libraries.?Andrea C. Dragon, Coll. of St. Elizabeth, Convent Station, N.J.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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O'Connell draws on forty years of camaraderie and affection to offer this hilarious spoof. Presented in the form of one organization's board meetings' minutes, Board Overboard is a witty sendup of a world that is too seldom treated with humor.
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