Category Archives: Board Member

239. Addressing Dissent and Building Consensus in Church Boards (Article 4)

This is the fourth and last in a series of articles addressing causes of dissent and proposing strategies to develop consensus among church boards.  In the three previous articles I reflected on six motivations for dissent identified in the Brown … (read the rest)

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238. Addressing Dissent and Building Consensus in Church Boards (Article 3)

This is the third in a series of articles addressing the causes of dissent within a church board and possible ways to remove it and develop consensus. In this blog article we consider three additional factors generating dissent — strategy … (read the rest)

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237. Addressing Dissent and Building Consensus in Church Boards (Article 2)

In article #236 I introduced the challenge that dissent within a church board presents to a board chair. Based on analysis proposed by the Brown Governance Letter of August 2014 I enumerated several causes for dissent. The premise is that … (read the rest)

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236. Ways for Church Board Chairs to Addresss Dissent and Build Consensus (Article 1)

Building consensus forms a great challenge for church board chairs. This issue is not unique to church boards, but affects all boards. In the August 2014 Brown Governance Letter the author analyzes various causes of dissent in the board room … (read the rest)

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235. Church Boards Who ‘Drink the Kool Aid’

Most of us recall the unfortunate, terrible tragedy of Jonestown (1978). Members of the People’s Temple committed suicide by drinking flavoured water laced with cyanide. “Drinking the kool-aid” (‘kool-aid’ is a name for flavoured drinks) in the United States has … (read the rest)

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