by Ted Hull | Aug 15, 2017 | Ted Hull
When a board develops its ends as it implements the Policy Governance® model, it considers three components. These components include: (1) how will people be better off, (2) which people will be better off and (3) what is it worth to produce these results. One of the...
by Andrew Bergen | Jun 6, 2017 | Andrew Bergen
In 1973, Steven Sasson began working for Kodak. Within two years, he had created some devices that acted as the first digital cameras. They were quite inefficient – particularly by today’s standards of digital photography – taking as much as 23 seconds to record the...
by Paul Zilz | May 9, 2017 | Paul Zilz
Children ask questions that are both profound and require clear, age-appropriate responses. “Why is the sky blue?” Why does the sky have clouds?” “Why is there pink, red, and orange in the sky when the sun sets?” Behind each of these questions is a whole lot of...
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 Rose Mercier | Apr 4, 2017 | Rose Mercier
News articles about public agencies can make for fascinating reading, particularly when they disappoint almost everyone who seems to have a stake in the organization’s performance, or if they have achieved status as a lead story. More often than not, it’s about lack...