December highlights: 10 most popular smorgasBoard articles of 2007, new assignments & Leadership Profiles, updates on ongoing engagements, and our wishes for a fabulous '08.
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Readers' choice:
10 most popular BoardWalk downloads of 2007
Over the past twelve months, BoardWalk's website has had over 135,000 visitors. Collectively, you viewed nearly half a million pages there--numbers we find amazing and humbling. We are pleased that so many of you have found our site so relevant to nonprofit leadership and governance, BoardWalk's exclusive focus.
Equally gratifying is the reaction to the articles, tips and tools we offer on the website and in smorgasBoard, our mostly-monthly newsletter. This past year alone, some 36,000 copies of our articles were downloaded.
Here are the top 10 downloads, both new and classics, that our readers requested from us during 2007. In case you missed one, just click the highlighted text to open a printable copy:
- "From Management to Governance: The Board's Evolving Role"
- "The Five Dysfunctions of a Board"
- Nonprofit Governance and Accountability: The Listening Post Project
- McKinsey & Co's guide to board self-assessment
- "Five Questions Every Board Should Ask"
- "Has Your Organization Outgrown Its Board?"
- Board and committee evaluation (template)
- "12 Steps to a Successful Search: A BoardWalk Guide"
- "Successful Successions: A BoardWalk Guide"
- Information on BoardWalk's Governance Fellowships at Harvard
Note: If there's a topic you'd like to see in a future smorgasBoard, please send your suggestion to info@boardwalkconsulting.com or hit the "Reply to" button on this email.
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New Assignments and Leadership Profiles
Arthritis Foundation
Mandate: Chief Financial Officer (click for Leadership Profile)
Status: Prospects being developed; inquiries welcomed
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Atlanta Women's Foundation
Mandate: Vice President, Philanthropy (click for Leadership Profile)
Status: Prospects being developed; inquiries welcomed. |
To view our other Active Assignments in executive search and board enrichment, please click here.
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The journey continues....
As we leave a remarkable 2007 and head into the new year, we remain grateful for the special opportunity to work with extraordinary people and extraordinary causes.
We cannot know what is around the next bend, of course, but we are confident it will be fascinating. We at BoardWalk wish you and yours a joyful, healthy and stimulating journey in 2008.
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