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Crisis Governance Contributed by:
Caroline OliverWednesday, February 10, 2010 (3 years 93 days ago)
Everyone has heard of crisis management, but is there such a thing as crisis governance? I would suggest there is. I would also suggest that there is a significant difference between the two, and that boards need to understand the difference if they are going to add real value through bad times.
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Measuring What Matters - Creating a Board Dashboard Contributed by:
Caroline OliverWednesday, January 28, 2009 (4 years 106 days ago)
They say that you get what you measure. At board level, measuring what matters is vital because setting the right direction is so much at the heart of the board’s responsibility. But, at the board level, it is also vital to measure
only what matters because boards have so little time to govern so much. Both of these points I would suggest lie behind the typical board’s attraction to things like KPI’s (key performance indicators) and balanced score cards. It is surely every board’s dream to be able to look at a single piece of paper and see exactly where their organisation is on everything that matters. The question is, is it really just a dream?
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The Black Holes in Research on Governance and Governance Models Contributed by:
Caroline OliverThursday, March 30, 2006 (7 years 46 days ago)
If you accept that the purpose of good governance is ultimately to ensure that organizations are successful then well governed organizations should presumably be more successful in accomplishing their purposes than poorly governed ones.
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Who Owns You? Contributed by:
Caroline OliverMonday, March 15, 2004 (9 years 61 days ago)
"Ownership" is not a concept that nonprofits embrace easily. Sounds much too "corporate", "not us", and "doesn't help anyway" nonprofits protest. Caroline Oliver, governance consultant, author and Chair of the International Policy Governance Association, asks you to reconsider.
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Simplifying the Board Policy Manual through Policy Governance Contributed by:
Caroline OliverThursday, December 12, 2002 (10 years 155 days ago)
The policy manual should guide the board's decision-making but for many boards, the policy manual is too lengthy, too complicated and too out of date to be useful. Caroline Oliver suggests that the solution is to be found in John Carver's Policy Governance model.
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