by Ralph Enlow | Sep 25, 2016 | 4ThoughtLeaders, Biblical Higher Ed, Perspectives |
What to do? My plate is overflowing. As an educational leader, you are confronted with a variety of competing priorities. To be sure, failure to ensure that student enrollment and donor support revenue streams are flowing will render other priorities irrelevant. Poor...
by Ralph Enlow | Jul 31, 2016 | 4ThoughtLeaders, Bible-Centered Leadership, Biblical Higher Ed, Perspectives |
Bottom-up build or top-down tumble This is the last in my series of posts on board governance. I began by saying, Show me any measure of institutional distress and I will inevitably discover roots of that dysfunction in significant governance flaws. With reference to...
by Ralph Enlow | Jul 17, 2016 | 4ThoughtLeaders, Bible-Centered Leadership, Biblical Higher Ed, Perspectives |
The first two questions in presidential performance accountability How can boards relate effectively to presidents? In my previous post, I offered four key board-CEO relationship questions. Let’s take a brief look now at the first two questions: Are we clear about the...
by Ralph Enlow | Jul 10, 2016 | 4ThoughtLeaders, Bible-Centered Leadership, Biblical Higher Ed, Perspectives |
The two-question agenda One rather stark morsel of conventional board wisdom suggests that every board meeting should revolve around only two questions. First question: Should we fire the president? If the answer is, “No” then the second question should be: How can we...
by Ralph Enlow | Jul 3, 2016 | 4ThoughtLeaders, Bible-Centered Leadership, Biblical Higher Ed, Perspectives |
The frame makes the picture It’s amazing what a good mat and frame can do for a piece of art. Choosing those things is an art in itself. The same applies to board policies. In this practical guidance for board governance series, I have thus far considered why and how...
by Ralph Enlow | Jun 26, 2016 | 4ThoughtLeaders, Bible-Centered Leadership, Biblical Higher Ed, Perspectives |
As we continue this extended series on good governance, we have moved from considering the why and how of board ownership of its performance to considering the importance of the board’s focus on ends rather than means. In introducing this segment, I described...
