J-B Carver Board Governance

20 primary works • 22 total works

Boards That Make a Difference

by John Carver

Published 1 April 1990

In this revised and updated third edition, Carver continues to debunk the entrenched beliefs and habits that hobble boards and to replace them with his innovative approach to effective governance. This proven model offers an empowering and fundamental redesign of the board role and emphasizes values, vision, empowerment of both the board and staff, and strategic ability to lead leaders. Policy Governance gives board members and staff a new approach to board job design, board-staff relationships, the role of the chief executive, performance monitoring, and virtually every aspect of the board-management relationship. This latest edition has been updated and expanded to include explanatory diagrams that have been used by thousands of Carver's seminar participants. It also contains illustrative examples of Policy Governance model policies that have been created by real-world organizations. In addition, this third edition of Boards That Make a Difference includes a new chapter on model criticisms and the challenges of governance research.

CarverGuide 01: Basic Principles of Policy Governance

by John Carver and Miriam Mayhew Carver

Published 10 December 2007

Offers board members a clear understanding of the concepts and principles that are at the very heart of John Carver's innovative Policy Governance model. Presents the guidelines needed to transform your board members into a unified group that consistently makes powerful contributions to its organization.

Your Roles and Responsibilities as a Board Member

by John Carver and Miriam Carver

Published 18 June 1996

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.

John Carver on Board Leadership

by John Carver

Published 31 October 2001

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including the best articles from the Board Leadership newsletter, articles from various publications, and previously unpublished short works.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 chapter has been carefully selected and arranged to provide you with a distillation of John Carver's revolutionary Policy Governance model.

CarverGuide 07: Board Assessment of the CEO

by John Carver

Published 10 December 2007

Tackles the often difficult issue of CEO evaluation.

Three Steps to Fiduciary Responsibility

by John Carver

Published 18 June 1996

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. Shows how a board can address the issue of actual fiscal conditions by creating plicies that safeguard an organization's real fiscal health.

Chairperson's Role as Servant-Leader to the Board

by John Carver

Published 14 November 1996

Describes the fundamental responsibilities of the chairpersonof the board: to ensure the functioning of the board and the integrity of the board process. Offers invaluable tips for helping the chair lead more effectively, such as leading the board to define its own job, design its discipline, and evaluate its performance.

CarverGuide

by John Carver

Published 14 June 1996

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.

Board Self-Assessment

by John Carver

Published 28 March 1997

Offers a novel whole-systems approach to this primary task by outlining the guiding principles of successful self-assessment. Your board will learn how to craft a policy that will spell out its job description and plan its conduct. In addidtion, it will learn how it can best implement self-assessment to see if it is doing its job and acting as it had planned.

CarverGuide 09: Making Diversity Meaningful in the Boardroom

by John Carver and Miriam Mayhew Carver

Published 10 December 2007

Explores what diversity means in the governance context and what kind of diversity boards should pursue.

Strategies for Board Leadership

by John Carver

Published 19 September 1997

This guide cuts across various aspects of the policy governance model and challenges board members to move from paradigm to performance.

CarverGuide 12: The CEO Role Under Policy Governance

by John Carver and Miriam Mayhew Carver

Published 10 December 2007

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.

Reinventing Your Board

by John Carver and Miriam Mayhew Carver

Published 1 January 2006

In the second edition of this best-selling Policy Governance operating manual, John Carver and Miriam Carver make this exciting approach to effective governance even more accessible and user-friendly, gleaning lessons learned in years of practice to help readers understand and use this invaluable model. Carver's groundbreaking Policy Governance model is the best-known, respected, and talked about governance model in the world and has fundamentally influenced the way organizations are governed. Reinventing Your Board, second edition, is a hands-on, step-by-step guide that puts the model to work in the meeting-to-meeting lives of board members. It includes new policy samples and a new chapter on monitoring performance, as well as other practical "put-the-model-in-motion" advice. This popular and highly successful companion to Boards That Make a Difference contains the nuts-and-bolts materials needed for implementing Policy Governance. The authors illustrate effective board decision making, show how to craft useful policies, and offer practical advice on such matters as setting the agenda, monitoring CEO performance, defining the board role, and more.
Step-by-step instructions and sample policies make this a must-have resource for boards in the public and nonprofit sectors aiming to govern their organizations with excellence.

The Board Member's Playbook

by Miriam Mayhew Carver and Bill Charney

Published 1 January 2004

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 them to find solutions consistent with the values and policies of their organizations. Designed to be flexible, the book's problem-solving methods are applicable to any challenge boards may face.

The Policy Governance Fieldbook

by Caroline Oliver, Mike Conduff, Susan Edsall, Carol Gabanna, Randee Loucks, Denise Paszkiewicz, Catherine Raso, and Linda Stier

Published 11 June 1999

"The Policy Governance Fieldbook is not a theoretical treatise, buta practical study. Its authors are concerned with real people inreal organizations with real challenges.... It is the first book tostart down what is surely to be a very long road. For thatboldness, I am in its authors' debt. But more importantly, boardseverywhere and those who rely on the integrity of governance--thatmeans all of us--are in their debt as well."

--from the Foreword by John Carver

"Local elected officials and professional staff will find Carver'smodel provocative and intriguing. This practical guide is one ofthe best I have encountered. The useful tips at the And of eachchapter are worth the price of the book."

--John Nalbandian, professor of public administration, Universityof Kansas

Boards all around the world have adopted the revolutionary PolicyGovernance principles to improve their leadership and performance.This fieldbook is the latest addition to growing literature on thelandmark model. Endorsed with a foreword by John Carver, thispractical, unflinching resource closely examines eleven diverseorganizations that have implemented Policy Governance in the UnitedStates and Canada. The authors analyze what works--and whatdoesn't--in real world practice. The Policy Governance Fieldbook isfor organizations considering, beginning to use, or already usingCarver's principles. Readers will discover practical advice basedon the real-life experiences of organizations that have tried andtested Policy Governance for themselves.

Each chapter is built around a user-friAndly, hands-onframework--first introducing a specific Policy Governance activityor challenge, exploring the experiences of boards that met thischallenge, and then drawing key lessons from those experiences.Filled with tips and tools for implementation of key principles,the book is far from a theoretical treatise. It is a practicalexploration of real organizations facing real challenges. ThePolicy Governance Fieldbook is an ideal guide for boards that areready to lead their organizations to success.

Getting Started with Policy Governance

by Caroline Oliver

Published 1 January 2008

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 failed in using Policy Governance. Now, she has drawn upon the most important lessons from that experience as well as her experience in helping many more organizations along the Policy Governance road to governing excellence.  The result is a wealth of tools and resources for helping readers to:

• Decide if Policy Governance is right for them
• Identify and link with owners
• Develop means policies
• Create Ends policies
• Monitor Policies
• Run meetings
• Evaluate
• Plan for the future

Corporate Boards That Create Value

by John Carver and Caroline Oliver

Published 1 January 2002

This book applies John Carver's highly successful Policy Governance model to corporate boards. Carver and boardroom consultant Caroline Oliver explain the world's only conceptually coherent operating system for boards. This simple yet profound system clarifies roles, empowers directors and senior management alike, and makes accountability feasible to a previously unattainable degree. The authors suggest a redefinition and elevation of the value that boards should create and show how to apply the Policy Governance design to commanding company performance. Corporate Boards That Create Value gives corporate directors and all who care about governance a powerful tool for success.

A Carver Policy Governance Guide, The Carver Policy Governance Guide Series on Board Leadership Set

by John Carver, Miriam Mayhew Carver, and Carver Governance Design Inc.

Published 1 January 2009

This set of six Carver Policy Governance Guides maps out Carver's innovative Policy Governance model and then takes readers through the essential elements of the model, which will transform boards into effective, responsible, highly functional bodies capable of doing their jobs to the utmost.

A Carver Policy Governance Guide, Ends and the Ownership

by John Carver and Miriam Mayhew Carver

Published 1 January 2009

The Carver Policy Governance (R) Guide series includes six booklets that offer board members a description of John Carver's Policy Governance model of board leadership. Policy Governance enables a board to fulfill its accountability to its organization's "owners," whether the owners are association members, city residents, company shareholders, or a community of interest. Policy Governance addresses the board's engagement in financial, programmatic, and personnel matters; roles of officers and committees; reporting and evaluation; agendas; and other aspects of the board job.

Ends and the Ownership helps boards distinguish between what an organization is for and what it does (ends versus means) a basic feature of the innovative Policy Governance model. This important guide also discusses the concept of ownership and includes sample policies that can help board members effectively prioritize and govern.

The Policy Governance model is based on the functions rather than the structure of a governing board. It outlines commonsense principles about governing that fit together into an entire system. The practices of the Policy Governance board, which are consistent with the principles, allow it to control without meddling, focus on long-term organizational outputs, powerfully delegate to a CEO and staff, and discharge its fiduciary responsibility in a visionary, strategic manner. Because the model is a total system, the Carver Policy Governance Guide series offers boards a complete set of principles for fulfilling their various obligations.

A Carver Policy Governance Guide, Adjacent Leadership Roles

by John Carver and Miriam Mayhew Carver

Published 4 December 2009

The Carver Policy Governance Guide series includes six booklets that offer board members a description of John Carver's Policy Governance model of board leadership. Policy Governance enables a board to fulfill its accountability to its organization's "owners," whether the owners are association members, city residents, company shareholders, or a community of interest. Policy Governance addresses the board's engagement in financial, programmatic, and personnel matters; roles of officers and committees; reporting and evaluation; agendas; and other aspects of the board job.

For boards pursuing, or wanting to pursue, the Policy Governance model, Adjacent Leadership Roles: CGO and CEO examines the leadership roles needed in the boardroom and the executive suite. This guide reveals the two important and separate functions that are key to enabling both governance and management to have the benefit of optimal leadership.

The Policy Governance model is based on the functions rather than the structure of a governing board. It outlines commonsense principles about governing that fit together into an entire system. The practices of the Policy Governance board, which are consistent with the principles, allow it to control without meddling, focus on long-term organizational outputs, powerfully delegate to a CEO and staff, and discharge its fiduciary responsibility in a visionary, strategic manner. Because the model is a total system, the Carver Policy Governance Guide series offers boards a complete set of principles for fulfilling their various obligations.