-Understand and Believe In Your Mission
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Leadership
Leadership / Boardroom Management
Inevitably, in the course of leading your organization, you will face someone at the board table who will push your buttons; they may make an unreasonable demand, overstep their authority, or challenge you publicly. How you REACT to this situation either will work toward a solution, or it will provide legs to this situation which may continue to haunt you like a black cloud for days and weeks (possibly months) to come.
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Stop telling me how many members you have; as a business I don’t care. Yes…the size of your membership is important to your organization’s financial success, to prove you have a legitimate constituency, and to provide you with bragging rights. But to me as a business owner, I don’t care.
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You provide professional leadership for your organization; take the same professional approach to managing your relationship with your Board of Directors and gain their respect.
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I received a call from a not-for-profit CEO who was dismissed by their Board of Directors; not the first call, likely not the last. No reason was given for dismissal.
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Have you heard about the frog in the boiling water?
As the tale goes…if you place a frog in a pot of cold water and heat the water to a boil, the frog will simply stay in the water and boil to death.
However, if you drop a frog in a pot of boiling water, it immediately jumps out.
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What’s more effective; a leader who leads by example, or someone who gets results regardless of what people think?
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