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Boards That Make a Difference: A New Design for Leadership in Nonprofit and Public Organizations
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John Carver
"This book should be in the library of everyone who serves-or aspires to serve-on the governing board of any organization, large or small, nonprofit or corporate. Better than any other available resource, it tells what the roles of board members are and what they must and shouldn't do. An indispensable guidebook to leadership excellence." -George ...
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Reinventing Your Board: A Step-By-Step Guide to Implementing Policy Governance
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John Carver, Miriam Mayhew Carver
John Carver's groundbreaking Policy Governance model has influenced the way public and nonprofit boards operate around the world. Now, as widespread experience with the model continues to grow, nonprofit and public board members can find a powerful resource and first-choice reading in the John Carver Set.In the bestselling Boards That Make a ...
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Getting Started with Policy Governance: Bringing Purpose, Integrity and Efficiency to Your Board's Work
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Caroline Oliver, John Carver (Foreword by)
In this newest book on the Policy Governance approach to board leadership created by John Carver, Caroline Oliver gives readers practical, hands-on tools for getting the most from the system in the day-to-day operation of their boards. In the "Policy Governance Fieldbook", Oliver explored the experience of 11 organizations that succeeded and ...
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Berlin Calling: American Broadcasters in Service to the Third Reich
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John Carver Edwards
Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of America's entry into World War II, this volume chronicles the careers of eight USA Zone commentators who worked for Nazi propagandist Josef Goebbels. Drawing upon a variety of documentary sources - letters written by the subjects to family, friends and colleagues; treason trial transcripts; the ...
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Hardball Fever
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John Carver, Renee Baker (Editor), Chip Erwin (Illustrator)
Hardball Fever is the Story of Rick Mason, a Down-And-Out Baseball Player. His Rich, Spoiled Wife has Filed for Divorce. He's Flat Broke and on the Verge of Brooming an Alcoholic. Then Rick Jakes a Job Managing a Minor League Club in Texas Big State League, Plunging Headfirst into a World or Greed and Murder.
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Winning: A Fictional Novel
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John Carver, Ali Fremming (Editor)
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Orville's Aviators: Outstanding Alumni of the Wright Flying School, 1910-1916
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John Carver Edwards
The half dozen pioneer flyers profiled here were all promising graduates of the Wright Brothers' School of Aviation, which flourished at Simms Station near Dayton, Ohio, from 1910 to 1916. Though they came from dissimilar backgrounds, taken collectively these airmen fairly represent their 113 fellow alumni in their all-consuming love of flying; ...
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Carverguide, Your Roles and Responsibilities as a Board Member
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John Carver, Miriam Mayhew Carver
Shows how board members must be successful strategic leaders, willing to cherish diversity, strive for accountability, and pinpoint board positions, for the good of the organization. Describes the essentials of the board member's job, and relates the job to Carver's Policy Governance model.
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Carverguide, Planning Better Board Meetings
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John Carver
Examines how to restrict crowded agendas, scattered focuses of discussion, and all the familiar weaknesses of group discipline-and use board energy efficiently and effectively. Tells how to select subject matter for meetings, how to plan use of board time, control the agenda, and discusses how long a board meeting should be in order to fulfill its ...
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The Board Member's Playbook: Using Policy Governance to Solve Problems, Make Decisions, and Build a Stronger Board
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Miriam Mayhew Carver, Bill Charney, John Carver (Foreword by)
The Board Member's Playbook--written for board members who are either familiar with or new to John Carver's revolutionary Policy Governance model--offers real-world scenarios that address the challenges that confront boards of all types of organizations. Step by step, the authors walk readers through a proven problem-solving sequence that allows ...
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John Carver on Board Leadership
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John Carver, Sir Adrian Cadbury (Foreword by)
This one--stop board leadership resource, written by one of the world's leading governance consultants and author of the bestselling Boards That Make a Difference, offers you a broad range of material including the best articles from the Board Leadership newsletter, articles from various publications, and previously unpublished short works. Each ...
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Carverguide, Board Members as Fund-Raisers, Advisers, and Lobbyists
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John Carver
This guide helps board members understand the boards involvement in fund-raising. It examines the governance context in which board fund-raising decisions should be made.
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Carverguide, Making Diversity Meaningful in the Boardroom
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Miriam Mayhew Carver, John Carver
Explores what diversity means in the governance context and what kind of diversity boards should pursue.
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A New Vision of Board Leadership
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John Carver
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Ends and the Ownership
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John Carver, Miriam Carver
"Carver Policy Governance Guide 2: Ends and the Ownership" helps boards distinguish between what an organization is for and what it does (ends vs. means), a basic feature of the innovative Policy Governance model. This guide also discusses the concept of ownership, and offers sample ends and means policies to help board members effectively ...
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Board Leadership, No. 60, 2002
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John Carver (Editor), Bl (Board Leadership) (Editor), Board Leadership (Bl) (Editor)
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Carverguide, Creating a Mission That Makes a Difference
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Looks at how to write a mission statement that delivers a powerful message. Shows how to make the statement one of concrete, practical utility, not just inspirational value. Provides a useful Mission Statement Checklist and advice on how to evaluate the completed statement.
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The Governance of Financial Management
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John Carver, Miriam Carver
"Carver Policy Governance Guide 3: The Governance of Financial Management" offers a strategic approach to the issues of finances and board responsibility, revealing how a board can get down to the business of governing its organization's financial planning by controlling budget values rather than budget numbers. It shows how a board can address ...
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Mrs. Blackwell's Heart of Texas Cookbook: A Tasty Memoir of the Depression
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Louise B Dillow, Deenie B Carver, John Henry Faulk (Foreword by)
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Evaluating CEO and Board Performance
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John Carver, Miriam Carver
"Carver Policy Governance Guide 5: Evaluating CEO and Board Performance" addresses the board's need to know whether the board itself and its operational organization are getting their jobs done. It discusses the importance of evaluation as part of a greater systematic view of governance, and provides principles for effectively and honestly ...
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The Policy Governance Model and the Role of the Board Member
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John Carver, Miriam Carver
"Carver Policy Governance Guide 1: The Policy Governance Model and the Role of the Board Member" sets out a vision for excellence in board leadership, giving board members a clear understanding of the concepts and principles that are at the very heart of John Carver's innovative Policy Governance model. This guide presents the guidelines needed to ...
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Carverguide, the CEO Role Under Policy Governance
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Miriam Mayhew Carver, John Carver
Just as Carver's Policy Governance transforms the board's job, it also transforms the job of the CEO. This guide offers practical advice for nonprofit CEOs on working with board members under this powerful model.
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Adjacent Leadership Roles: CGO and CEO
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John Carver, Miriam Carver
"Carver Policy Governance Guide 4: Adjacent Leadership Roles: CGO and CEO" examines the leadership roles needed in the board room and the executive suite by Policy Governance boards. Readers will learn about these two important and separate functions that are key to enabling both governance and management to have the benefit of optimal leadership.
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Carverguide, Strategies for Board Leadership
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John Carver
This guide cuts across various aspects of the policy governance model and challenges board members to move from paradigm to performance.
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Carverguide, Board Assessment of the CEO
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John Carver
Tackles the often difficult issue of CEO evaluation.
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