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Article: Finding boards a better way. (directors of corporations) (Cover Story)
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- Association Management
- Article date:
- September 1, 1992
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1992 American Society of Association Executives. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Many associations are governed by groups that govern the way they govern because they have always done it that way. It's the way they learned to govern as they were coming up the ranks. It's consistent with die way they run their businesses or their professional lives.
And no one has ever stopped to find a better way. Until John Carver, president of Carver Governance & Design, Carmel, Indiana. In his book Boards That Make a Difference, published by Jossey-Bass, Inc., Publishers, San Francisco (which also publishes tapes and a newsletter by Carver), Carver starts from scratch to build a new understanding of the role of the board in nonprofit organizations.
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