Strong CEOs are the key to any community’s nonprofit success. Boards of Directors have little or nothing to do with it. Humorist Mark Twain’s famously said, “God first made idiots (that was for practice) then He made…Boards!”  After spending twenty-five years in nonprofit management (having worked with over 500 boards) I’ve determined, broadly speaking, there are three types of boards… …mediocre ones, useless ones, and really bad ones. It’s not the fault of the individual volunteer […]