How Board Members Drive Success
We were pleased to hear from many of you over the past week about our last issue on the topic of NGOs. Clearly, many of you care deeply. One of the important questions we heard: How can board members help their NGOs achieve more?
As you know, boards have official duties in the areas of governance, financial oversight, and compliance. We’re not going to address these matters because we think most boards handle them well.
But we do want to comment on important opportunities beyond the basics that we think board members sometimes miss.
I think the best way for me to show this is to draw on my 11-year experience as CEO of The Nature Conservancy. The lessons I learned then (and share below) shape how I behave now as a board member at other NGOs.
Here are three things I recommend that board members do: