by Rose Mercier | Aug 7, 2018 | Rose Mercier
Perhaps because I live in a smaller city, lots of circumstances that might otherwise be a footnote in a larger metropolitan area attract the local newspaper’s attention. Consequently, I have a rich source of revelations about the impact of poor governance. Last week’s...
by Rose Mercier | Jul 11, 2018 | Rose Mercier
I received a call from the president of an organization that I coach which was in the middle of revising its bylaws. It had been suggested to the president that it was hard for a board to function without an executive committee. She called because she was curious...
by Rose Mercier | May 8, 2018 | Rose Mercier
I coach an organization that, like many other organizations, is wondering how changing population demographics will affect them. They have been proactively trying to understand how their association will be relevant in the future to the various generations – Baby...
by Rose Mercier | Mar 27, 2018 | Rose Mercier
In the last few months I have found myself reading widely from the Harvard Business Review. It seems to have become more “accessible” – cleaner formats, more graphics, and simpler language. I had always liked the wide range of relevant and soundly researched topics....
by Rose Mercier | Feb 27, 2018 | Rose Mercier
In mid-September I read an article in my local newspaper that grabbed my attention. The headline: “Surprised by 700K deficit.” Wow, I thought – a high six figure deficit is pretty large surprise for a non-profit agency. Why, I thought, was the board surprised? The...
by Rose Mercier | Dec 5, 2017 | Rose Mercier
In my decade-long path of helping boards and CEOs implement practices that support the elegant governance system that is Policy Governance®, I have learned that monitoring is both embraced and cursed. Embraced for its promise of providing evidence that the...
