The CEO and the Board: The Art of Nonprofit Governance as a Competitive Advantage

Over the past several years, business leadership has become more complex and challenging than ever. Along with professional and personality clashes, businesses are facing heightened competition, tighter margins, competition for talented employees, the exposion of technology, and the impact of a global pandemic. In the Church, Christian leaders use their gifts and talents to help spread the Gospel. In the rest of the world, they use their talents given to them to efficiently lead their organizations and institutions. The CEO and the Board: The Art of Nonprofit Governance as a Competitive Advantage shares the good news that it is possible for boards and senior leadership teams to recraft the governance process to better serve their organizational mission. The author, Dr. Kurt Senske, who served as CEO of Lutheran Social Services of the South for 23 years and has served on 11 boards of directors, offers the results of his own research and experience, to help CEOs and their boards openly examine and adapt its governance model to create a competitive advantage designed to drive organizational missional success.