May 20, 1999
It's Time for Boards to Rethink How They Govern
Non-profit boards are not known for their capacity to change the way they operate. With the organizations they govern isolated from both electoral politics and market forces -- and with the boards themselves held to varying standards of accountability -- trustees can become ossified in their thinking. Add to that an instinctive human aversion to change, and the result is that non-profit boards tend to steer a steady course, content with the status quo, until the
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