John Carver on Board Leadership - (J-B Carver Board Governance) (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>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including the best articles from the Board Leadership newsletter, articles from various publications, and previously unpublished short works.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.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>John Carver has given board effectiveness a unifying vision, a logical and coherent base-an integrated theory of governance. This collection of his writings brings home the intellectual rigor of his thinking and the coherence of his Policy Governance model. <br /> -- Sir Adrian Cadbury, director of the Bank of England, chairman of Cadbury-Schweppes, Chancellor of Aston University, chairman of the Committee on Financial Aspects of Corporate Governance in the UK (The Cadbury Report), and author of The Company Chairman <p>John Carver, like Robert K. Greenleaf before him, is a revolutionary of the very best kind. Carver's Policy Governance model has provided the means for trustees to live out Greenleaf's challenge to boards to act as both servant and leader. In so doing, John has proven himself to be one of our greatest servant-leaders.<br /> -- Larry Spears, CEO, The Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership, editor of Reflections on Leadership and Insights on Leadership</p> <p>The conceptual clarity of Dr. Carver's approach provided us an excellent basis for development of new governance arrangements in defence, helping us to sharpen our focus on results and the associated accountability framework.<br /> -- Dr. Allan Hawke, Secretary, Australian Department of Defence, Canberra</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>..packed with information and advice..(Modern Management, February 2002)<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>John Carver is internationally known as creator of the breakthrough in board leadership called the Policy Governance model. He has worked with boards in the United States and Canada and on four other continents for over twenty years. His ideas have been featured by the Times of London, the National League of Cities, the Canadian Hospital Association, the American Society of Association Executives, Georgia Power Company, and many others. <br /> Carver is the author of the bimonthly newsletter workshop Board Leadership (since 1992), the book Boards That Make a Difference, Second Edition (Jossey-Bass, 1997), the video John Carver on Board Governance (1993), the audiotape Empowering Boards for Leadership (1992), and coauthor of the books A New Vision of Board Leadership (1994), Reinventing Your Board (Jossey-Bass, 1997), and the CarverGuide Series on Effective Board Governance (Jossey-Bass, 1996-1997).
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