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		<title>Another view of Governance in nonprofit organizations?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 17:14:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lloyd VanderKwaak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is governance a board of directors activity or is it an operating system that includes the entire organization? Yes,  this question was the title of my January 20th post. I posed this question on a LinkedIn discussion group called the Nonprofit Board Forum to see what they thought.  You can check out the discussion by [...]
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		<title>Is Governance a Board Activity or an Organizational System?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 20:40:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lloyd VanderKwaak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every nonprofit organization has a governance system! More accurately, a governance operating system. Just as Windows 7 powers most PCs and Snow Leopard powers Macs, the governance operating system powers the nonprofit organization! The Malcolm Baldrige Performance Excellence Program defines governance as &#8220;&#8230;the system of management and controls exercised in the stewardship of the organization. [...]
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		<title>The Polarity of Mission and Performance in Nonprofit Organizations</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 18:14:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lloyd VanderKwaak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The core question that faces the leaders of all nonprofit organizations is this: What is more important &#8212; Mission or Performance? This seems like a simple question. However, when you begin to seek the answer, you  realize that this is a complex question. No matter choice you pick &#8212; mission or performance &#8212; you realize [...]
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		<title>Nonprofit Board of Directors &amp; Organizational Reality</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 2010 18:35:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lloyd VanderKwaak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is the responsibility of the leader to define reality. &#8212; Max De Pree When I first came across this statement in Max De Pree&#8217;s book Leadership as an Art, I  thought he was speaking to the CEO and reminding him or her that to lead is think about the future of the organization. In [...]
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		<title>Leading nonprofits into the future: An interview</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 12:56:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lloyd VanderKwaak</dc:creator>
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