by Richard Stringham | Jul 11, 2017 | Richard Stringham
I expect that the intent and content for an organization’s Annual Report are as much mysteries to most board members as they are to those who read them. After all, when scanning a number of annual reports, the most common elements are the financial statements. Beyond...
by Richard Stringham | Jun 13, 2017 | Richard Stringham
It is the headline that board members dread: “Former Treasurer Charged with Defrauding [name of the organization]”. Yet, in the past month, I’ve caught two of those headlines in my local newspaper. It’s by no means the first as I’ve seen several such headlines over...
by Richard Stringham | May 2, 2017 | Richard Stringham
Many of us working with Policy Governance have long advocated that boards should specify meaningful results in Ends policies rather than getting hung up on how to measure the results. What I hadn’t fully appreciated was how significant precise statements of meaningful...
by Richard Stringham | Mar 21, 2017 | Richard Stringham
Even the largest organizations have limited resources for the difference that they want to make in the world. The board needs to make what are often difficult choices among all the Ends that an organization could achieve. For example, school boards may have to...
by Richard Stringham | Jan 24, 2017 | Richard Stringham
In previous careers, I have worked for a few CEOs of non-profit organizations in which the respective boards weren’t using Policy Governance®. Meetings of the board were always intriguing from the perspective of understanding what the board was thinking. Prior to a...
by Richard Stringham | Dec 13, 2016 | Richard Stringham
In my days as a much younger man I was invited to join friends for a weekend of canoeing on a river which included some exciting sections of rapids. Although not requiring a high level of white-water skills, it was nonetheless challenging especially for a novice such...
