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GOVERNANCE & MINISTRY
by Dan Hotchkiss
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by Dan Hotchkiss Boards often criticize themselves for “getting too far into the weeds” of daily management detail. They know they should be spending more time envisioning the future and deciding big, strategic issues, but. But concepts like discernment, strategy, and vision seem rather soft and blurry. After trying to focus on them for a while, boards slip back to problem-solving with relief. © 2007 Aldaron, Flickr | CC-BY-SA | via Wylio Harvard educator Richard Chait offers a way of thinking of this issue many boards find helpful. In a readable, short book, Governance as Leadership, Chait and his colleagues offer, in place of the frustrating simplicity of micromanagement is bad and visioning is good—three modes of governance: fiduciary, strategic, and generative. All three modes are necessary and appropriate; the goal is for the board to give each mode its due attention. What follows is my slightly different riff on
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