by The Governance Coach™ | May 28, 2026 | Richard Stringham
Boards using Policy Governance are often challenged to determine if a CEO’s interpretation meets the criteria for what is required in an interpretation. One of the tests that I use is to imagine someone else tasked with delivering a monitoring report using the CEO’s...
by Richard Stringham | Dec 2, 2025 | Richard Stringham
In my earlier days as a governance consultant, it wasn’t unusual to come across a board where the Executive Director was reporting to the Board Chair. Perhaps it was a symptom of the growth in those organizations. Before there was an Executive Director, it was likely...
by Rose Mercier | Jun 26, 2025 | Rose Mercier
*Originally published February 14, 2017 I draft a lot of documents – reports, articles like this one, policies, memos, letters, bylaws, social media posts, etc. If you write a lot, it is easy to get caught up in trying to find the precise words to say what you mean....
by Richard Stringham | Jan 13, 2022 | Richard Stringham
When I first began governance consulting, I often ran into a misconception that the Board Chair was the CEO’s boss. I don’t encounter that nearly so often these days; but an odd remnant of that view still pops up – some think that the Chair should be the...
by Richard Stringham | Jun 24, 2021 | Richard Stringham
In previous careers, I have worked for several 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...
