Filled with very practical, down-to-earth guidance that CEOs and other nonprofit/quasi-public leaders can put to immediate use and with numerous real-life examples that are drawn from the author's 25 years of work with hundreds of nonprofits.

Deals with the emotional and psychological dimension of the board-CEO partnership, providing readers with practical advice in building board member feelings of ownership and commitment to their governing work.

Provides the most up-to-date treatment of a function that is widely seen as the “gold standard” of board involvement:  leading innovation and change.