Articles and Recommended Reading

From the League

Symphony Magazine Winter 2014, "Board Room": League Board Chair Patricia A. Richard on What It Takes to Lead
Symphony Magazine Summer 2014 "Board Room": An Excerpt from Susan Howlett's Book Boards on Fire
“Mental Maps to a New Governance Model,” by Cathy Trower
“The Gremlins of Governance,” by Richard Chait
“Governing Toward the Future,” by Fred Miller
“Governance Is Governance,” by Kenneth N. Dayton
“The New Work of the Nonprofit Board,” by Barbara E, Taylor, Richard P. Chait, and Thomas P. Holland
“Charting a Path,” by Lowell Noteboom and John Goldman
"Good Governance for Challenging Times,” by Lowell Noteboom, Chair, League of American Orchestras (2003)
“Stress Factors, ” An interview with Lowell Noteboom, Chair, League of American Orchestras, (2010)
"The Practitioner's Guide to Governance as Leadership: Building High-Performing Nonprofit Boards" by Cathy A. Trower
“The Board Chair Handbook," 2nd Edition (BoardSource publication)
Boards That Make a Difference (J-B Carver Board Governance Series) by John Carver
Governance as Leadership: Reframing the Work of Nonprofit Boards by Richard P. Chait, William P. Ryan, and Barbara E. Taylor
The New Work of the Nonprofit Board by Barbara E. Taylor, Richard P. Chait, and Thomas P. Holland
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't by Jim Collins
Good to Great and the Social Sectors: A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great by Jim Collins
Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies by Jim Collins
Nonprofit Boards That Work: The End of One-Size-Fits-All Governance by Maureen Robinson
Driving Strategic Planning: A Nonprofit Executive's Guide, Second Edition by Sue Waechter, from BoardSource
Nonprofit Executive Compensation: Planning, Performance and Pay, Second Edition, from BoardSource

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