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I couldn’t agree more. The ineptness I have witnessed from nonprofit Boards is not only harmful to the organizations they represent, but more importantly to the clients those nonprofits serve. Group think is dangerous. It sets the nonprofit’s leadership at a disadvantage from the start. That’s a tough ditch to crawl out of.
The vast majority of board members for charitable nonprofits serve as volunteers without any compensation.
Thanks for the comment. 🙂 Yes they pretty much always have, which is why the magnitude of micro-management in the culture of Boards is so difficult for Executive Directors to overcome. They get paid but Board members don’t, yet because most Board members work in the marketplace (which is mostly command-and-control management), they bring that behavior to the Nonprofit environment.
Thanks for this very valuable article. It is unfortunate, but true. Having served as a non-profit Executive Director, the business of the non-profit is still principally a people-process-product business. Having that experience, any organization, profit or non-profit, is dependent on having the right people in positions of leadership. After 2020, all of what you’ve written is spot-on . Thanks for your timely observations.
Very true. My book has proven successful to solve this perennial conundrum, without the rigidity or hubris of other systems.
Jonathan D. Schick, President
GOAL Consulting Group
Author, The Nonprofit Secret: Six Principles of Successful Board/CEO Partnerships
Great Read as always Maxie.