Getting Started With Policy Governance: Bringing Purpose, Integrity and Efficiency to Your Board's Work

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. Now, she has gathered the most important lessons from these organizations and others and has developed tools and resources to help organizations succeed in using Policy Governance. Hands-on tools take readers step-by-step through the challenges of making the model work, from orienting readers to the benefits of the model, to putting it into place.

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