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Book SynopsisIn the second edition of this best-selling Policy Governance operating manual, John Carver and Miriam Carver make this exciting approach to effective governance even more accessible and user-friendly, gleaning lessons learned in years of practice to help readers understand and use this invaluable model.
Carver's groundbreaking Policy Governance model is the best-known, respected, and talked about governance model in the world and has fundamentally influenced the way organizations are governed. Reinventing Your Board, second edition, is a hands-on, step-by-step guide that puts the model to work in the meeting-to-meeting lives of board members. It includes new policy samples and a new chapter on monitoring performance, as well as other practical put-the-model-in-motion advice. This popular and highly successful companion to Boards That Make a Difference contains the nuts-and-bolts materials needed for implementing Policy Governance. The authors illustrate effective boar
Table of Contents
Policies vii
Figures and Exhibits xi
Preface to the Revised Edition xiii
Preface xvii
Acknowledgments xxi
The Authors xxiii
Part One: Preparing for Change
1. Setting the Stage: Are You Sure You’re Ready for This? 3
2. The Theoretical Foundation: The Practicality of Sound Theory 17
3. Deciding to Implement Policy Governance: Looking Before You Leap 37
Part Two: Crafting Policies
4. Executive Limitations Policies: Optimizing Empowerment by Setting Limits 65
5. Governance Process Policies: Defining the Board’s Job 103
6. Board-Management Delegation Policies: Linking Governance to the CEO 133
7. Ends Policies: The Real Bottom Line 151
Part Three: Ready, Steady, Go
8. Monitoring Organizational Performance: Getting the Right Information About the Right Things 179
9. The Board’s Documents: Preserving the Board’s Decisions 199
10. Implementation and Beyond: Concrete Steps Mirror Conceptual Integrity 219
Resources
A. A Sample Board Policy Manual 233
B. Sample Ends Policies 257
C. Sample Monitoring Reports 269
D. Selected Readings 295
Index 297
