Books by John (Atlanta Carver

Carver Policy Governance Guide 2: Ends and the Ownership helps boards distinguish between what an organization is for and what it does (ends vs. means), a basic feature of the innovative Policy Governance model.

Carver Policy Governance Guide 5: Evaluating CEO and Board Performance addresses the board's need to know whether the board itself and its operational organization are getting their jobs done.

Carver Policy Governance Guide 4: Adjacent Leadership Roles: CGO and CEO examines the leadership roles needed in the board room and the executive suite by Policy Governance boards. Readers will learn about these two important and separate functions that are key to enabling both governance and management to have the benefit of optimal leadership.

In this revised and updated third edition, Carver continues to debunk the entrenched beliefs and habits that hobble boards and to replace them with his innovative approach to effective governance. This proven model offers an empowering and fundamental redesign of the board role and emphasizes values, vision, empowerment of both the board and staff, and strategic ability to lead leaders. Policy Governance gives board members and staff a new approach to board job design, board-staff relationships, the role of the chief executive, performance monitoring, and virtually every aspect of the board-management relationship. This latest edition has been updated and expanded to include explanatory diagrams that have been used by thousands of Carver's seminar participants. It also contains illustrative examples of Policy Governance model policies that have been created by real-world organizations. In addition, this third edition of Boards That Make a Difference includes a new chapter on model criticisms and the challenges of governance research.This is a set and includes ISBN: 9780787976163 Boards That Make a Difference: A New Design for Leadership in Nonprofit and Public Organizations, 3rd Edition and ISBN: 9780787981815 Reinventing Your Board: A Step-by-Step Guide to Implementing Policy Governance, Revised Edition.

This one-stop board leadership resource, written by the author of "Boards that Make a Difference" features a broad range of material including the best articles from the "Board Leadership newsletter", articles from various publications, and previously unpublished short works.

This hands-on, step-by-step companion to Boards That Make a Difference puts the revolutionary Policy Governance Model to work in the real world. In Reinventing Your Board, John and Miriam Carver show how to put Policy Governance into motion and take organizations to new levels of achievement.

For over a decade Boards that Make a Difference has set the standard for those who want to bring their boards and their organizations to a higher level of performance. John Carver's revolutionary Policy Governance Model changes the way boards work.