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Nailing Down a Board: Serving Effectively on the Not-for-Profit Board is unavailable, but you can change that!

Are you on a not-for-profit board? A church board? A business board? Or do you approach the thought of such a responsibility with trepidation? Charles C. Ryrie has served on all sorts of boards, and he has thought much about their great opportunities. He has also noted problems that are common to boards: • Finding good members • Keeping them when they are found • Resolving conflicts • ...

1. The selection process should include the entire board. Along the way a committee may do some of the work, but the whole board should be informed and included at each step of the process. It is a mistake to allow one or two forceful members to control the process and ramrod their choice(s) through the board. Even the CEO (including a pastor) should be careful not to control the selection process in order to bring on board those who either are the CEO’s friends or who can be counted on to share
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