July 23, 2009 | Read Time: 1 minute
NEW BOOKS
The Nonprofit Secret
by Jonathan D. Schick
The key to running a successful nonprofit organization is a healthy partnership between its board and its chief executive, says Jonathan D. Schick, a leadership consultant. An effective and ethical relationship between the two is the cornerstone of good communications and morale.
Mr. Schick outlines six principles that charities must abide by to ensure that relations between boards and CEO’s remain strong:
* Boards should focus on governance and not management.
* Board members should count the chief executive as their only employee.
* The chief executive is responsible to the entire board.
* The board creates committees to complete its own tasks, not those of the chief executive.
* The board should create a committee to evaluate the organization’s leader.
* The board must evaluate itself annually.
Publisher: P3 Press, 16200 North Dallas Parkway, Suite 170, Dallas, Tex. 75248; (972) 381-0009; http://www.thep3press.com; 113 pages; $24.95; ISBN 978-1-933651-41-5.
