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		<title>Go Ahead, Change.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2012 21:02:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Organizations benefit in several ways by removing the board from managing the organization. The board can focus on strategy; it can hold the executive accountable more easily. But one of the unappreciated benefits is that the organization can change its management structure more quickly.]]></description>
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		<title>How Do We Evaluate our Executive Director?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 20:06:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When boards ask how to evaluate their Executive Director, they forget that it is really they (the Board) who is being evaluated.  Boards have a very specific role: represent the interests of some group, be it citizens, members, or people who care deeply about an issue.  The Board is successful if the organization fulfills its <a href="http://thesandbargroup.com/blog/how-do-we-evaluate-our-executive-director/#more-'" class="more-link">more »</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Policy Governance Update: Using the &#8220;stock set&#8221; of Executive Limitations is not serving your moral owners</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 16:18:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Policy Governance practitioners need to go beyond the "starter set" of Executive Limitations policies and begin to more thoughtfully manage the risks to their own organization.]]></description>
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		<title>When Boards Attack</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 02:02:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was talking with an Executive Director whose is beginning to feel attacked by her board.  A few Board members have heard complaints from a few members and decided to investigate.  They commissioned a survey which demonstrated that eighty percent of the members are “satisfied” or “very satisfied” with the organization.  However, when the survey <a href="http://thesandbargroup.com/blog/when-boards-attack/#more-'" class="more-link">more »</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Should the Executive Director select new board members?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2011 20:57:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wise boards should seek the advice of their executive (or any staff members) when making decision. However, boards should also seek their own independent advisers as well. Here&#8217;s why (I know this will not make me popular). The purpose of the board is to serve a group of people. Let&#8217;s call them the moral owners <a href="http://thesandbargroup.com/blog/should-the-executive-director-select-new-board-members/#more-'" class="more-link">more »</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Make Better Decisions Faster</title>
		<link>http://thesandbargroup.com/blog/make-better-decisions-faster/</link>
		<comments>http://thesandbargroup.com/blog/make-better-decisions-faster/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 20:59:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thesandbargroup.com/?p=614</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We can&#8217;t make the decision I am sitting in a community-wide meeting of members of the clergy.  They are rankled because a community organization requested the use of their mailing lists to provide a valuable (and free) service to some of their members of their congregations.  The clergy were told that their lists would not <a href="http://thesandbargroup.com/blog/make-better-decisions-faster/#more-'" class="more-link">more »</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Good Governance Averts Crisis Despite Perceived CEO Mistake</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 21:03:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One board member angrily complains that an letter improperly solicited the members of their organization. Accusatory emails shoot back and forth and the temperatures of the Board members and CEO begins to rise.  “This was the old way of handling problems,” one board member comments.  However, they had recently implemented a new way of governing <a href="http://thesandbargroup.com/blog/good-governance-averts-crisis-despite-perceived-ceo-mistake/#more-'" class="more-link">more »</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Nonprofits Close, Let&#8217;s Rejoice</title>
		<link>http://thesandbargroup.com/blog/nonprofits-close-lets-rejoice/</link>
		<comments>http://thesandbargroup.com/blog/nonprofits-close-lets-rejoice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 21:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent New York Times article described a group of nonprofits which closed their doors, not because they failed, but because they succeeded.  These nonprofits successfully completed their mission and felt that the most responsible thing for them to do is to suspend operations and declare victory.  This is remarkable on many levels and a <a href="http://thesandbargroup.com/blog/nonprofits-close-lets-rejoice/#more-'" class="more-link">more »</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Stop Asking Your Executive Director to Do Your Work</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 22:06:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nonprofit board members are in a difficult position.  They are often not trained to fulfill their role as a member of the Board and must rely on the advice of the Executive Director in order to fulfill their job.  The problem is, one of the jobs of the Board of Directors is to hold the <a href="http://thesandbargroup.com/blog/stop-asking-your-executive-director-to-do-your-work/#more-'" class="more-link">more »</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Executive Directors Unnecessarily Relinquishes Authority</title>
		<link>http://thesandbargroup.com/blog/wordpress-resources-at-siteground/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:50:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the “traditional” board model where the board serves as an extension of the management, there is a dance between the CEO and the board. The CEO provides information to the board which then deliberates over that information and approves a next step. But what if the CEO already has the authority to make the <a href="http://thesandbargroup.com/blog/wordpress-resources-at-siteground/#more-'" class="more-link">more »</a>]]></description>
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