Books in the J-B Carver Board Governance Series series

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 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.

Applying the highly successful Policy Governance model to corporate boards, this title explains the world's only conceptually coherent operating system for boards. This simple yet profound system clarifies roles, empowers directors and senior management alike, and makes accountability feasible to a previously unattainable degree.

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.

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.

Fans of John Carver's renowned Policy Governance model need hands-on tools for making it work in the day-to-day operations of their organizations. In the Policy Governance Fieldbook (0-7879-4366-5), Oliver explored eleven organizations that implemented Policy Governance.

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including the best articles from the "Board Leadership newsletter", articles from various publications, and previously unpublished short works.

The Board Member's Playbook--written for board members who are either familiar with or new to John Carver's revolutionary Policy Governance model--offers real-world scenarios that address the challenges that confront boards of all types of organizations.

Carver Policy Governance Guide 3: The Governance of Financial Management offers a strategic approach to the issues of finances and board responsibility, revealing how a board can get down to the business of governing its organization's financial planning by controlling budget values rather than budget numbers.

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.

Carver Policy Governance Guide 6: Implementing Policy Governance and Staying on Track shows boards how to apply the principles of Policy Governance and change the way their boards govern in practice. This guide cuts across various aspects of the policy governance model and challenges board members to move from paradigm to performance.

"The Policy Governance Fieldbook is not a theoretical treatise, but a practical study. Its authors are concerned with real people in real organizations with real challenges. It is the first book to start down what is surely to be a very long road. For that boldness, I am in its authors' debt.