Category Archives: Board Member

174. Building Better Church Boards.

Posted on April 22, 2013 by Dr. Larry Perkins

“The high-performance board, like the high-performance team, is competent, coordinated, collegial, and focused on an unambiguous goal. Such entities do not simply evolve; they must be constructed to an exacting blueprint” (Harvard Business Review, May 2004. David Nadler).

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173: Bad Governance is Harmful — Chairs, Take Note!

Posted on April 15, 2013 by Dr. Larry Perkins

In several posts on this website I have argued the benefits of good governance. It is useful, however, to remind ourselves of the harm that bad governance produces. In other words the absence of good governance does not mean that … (read the rest)

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172. Case Study # 12. Where, Oh Where, Is the Next Board Chair?

Posted on April 8, 2013 by Dr. Larry Perkins

[Although the story in this case study may seem to resemble a real situation, the names, places and actual circumstances do not describe any actual church, church board, pastor or chairperson.]

Jake celebrated his sixty-seventh birthday a week ago. This … (read the rest)

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171. What Makes a Great Church Board Chair?

Posted on April 1, 2013 by Dr. Larry Perkins

Chances are that since you began serving as a board member, you have experienced the leadership of several board chairs. What made those chairpersons effective as board leaders? If their leadership was less satisfactory, why was that the case?

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170. Book Review # 11: “Eldership in Action through Biblical Governance of the Church” by R.H. Swartley (2005)

Posted on March 25, 2013 by Dr. Larry Perkins

Frequently pastors and church board members question me about the relationship between governance and eldership. In most cases skepticism about their compatibility drives their concern. Above all they sense that the very term “board” somehow will contaminate the operations of … (read the rest)

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