by Ted Hull | Feb 20, 2018 | Ted Hull
Recently I was meeting with a board that was just beginning to implement Policy Governance®. The board appeared to have a good grasp of the model including the principle of Executive Limitations. The board understood the idea that it would delegate authority to the...
by Ted Hull | Jan 16, 2018 | Ted Hull
[Note: if you are not a church, there’s still a lesson in this blog.] “A budget is the most overworked, overused, misunderstood, and inaccurate piece of fiction that a church board will ever see. It’s like a bad steak which is chewed on, gnawed on, and eventually...
by Ted Hull | Oct 31, 2017 | Ted Hull
I was about 11 years old when I attended my first auction sale. I quickly got the idea how the system worked and as a budding entrepreneur I got into the bidding and ended up outbidding everyone else, in the process scoring an antique rocking chair for two dollars....
by Ted Hull | Oct 3, 2017 | Ted Hull
You are likely reading this blog because you have some familiarity with a board which professes to be using Policy Governance®. Maybe your board has been using the “Carver model” for years or it is using a hybrid model of Policy Governance. I was hardly aware of...
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 Ted Hull | Jun 27, 2017 | Ted Hull
It is important that we have term limits for board members so we can get fresh blood. We need term limits; otherwise how do we get rid of poor board members? These are two very common reasons for setting term limits for a board. You can add to this list of supposedly...