Tag Archives: Church board leadership

271. What Kind of Leadership Must Your Church Board Provide/

The topic of leadership receives great attention these days. We realize that individual leaders come in all shapes and sizes, with different gift sets. Defining and identifying group or team leadership is even more complex, but that is what church … (read the rest)

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157. Setting the Tone at the Top — a Board Chair’s Responsibility

Recent assessments about what went wrong with significant failed companies keep pointing to leadership and governance as a primary factor. For some reason the board did not exercise due diligence in stewarding the corporate mission and values. I wonder what … (read the rest)

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76. The Board Chair and a Long-Term View of Governance.

While many who participate in church boards think that their role is to make sure the present congregational operations are sustained, in my view the more significant and critical work of a church board has to do with the future(read the rest)

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54: Review Article #4. Dan Hotchkiss, Governance and Ministry. Rethinking Board Leadership

Dan Hotchkiss, Governance and Ministry. Rethinking Board Leadership. Herndon, Virginia: The Alban Institute, 2009. 249 pages.

From the first days of the church, governance and ministry (Acts 6) have linked themselves together in ways that directly affect the ability of … (read the rest)

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