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These are books and audio recordings I have found inspirational and helpful in the past several years. There are Amazon.com links for those items available through Amazon.com. Please let me know of your favorites and new discoveries that are not listed.
How to Build an Effective Board Published by the American Society of Association Executives
ASAE’s summary: This book is fundamentally about leadership and tools for excellence in governance. Richard's descriptive models and principles make the typically complex concepts of leadership understandable and employable. The appendices include a treasure trove of practical tools to help you get started such as visions vs. mission exercises, ends vs. means exercises, board business exercises, a sample policy manual, and a sample board member survey. An important how-to resource for association leaders, staff executives and volunteers alike--this book can be used to benchmark your board's performance and plan for future challenges and opportunities. (1997, 200 pages, softcover)
Janet McCallen Richards may not have done any ground-breaking thinking in this book, but he sure pulled together the best of many different approaches to governance and integrated them in a way they could be implemented by most organizations. A handy primer and reference for anyone involved in associations.
Available from www.asaenet.org or the Amazon.com link below.
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