Called to Serve: Creating and Nurturing the Effective Volunteer Board

Max De Pree

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In Called to Serve internationally respected CEO Max De Pree offers experienced advice on how to create a successful nonprofit board.

Now retired as chairman of the board of Herman Miller Inc., Max De Pree has been lauded by Forbes, Fortune, and The Wall Street Journal as one of the most sensitive and successful leaders in the business world. This experience comes through clearly as De Pree lays out the nuts and bolts of nonprofit organization and provides the direction necessary to establish and nurture a volunteer board.

Based on De Pree's many years of service on nonprofit boards, his work as a consultant in the field, and his work as a teacher who has already used this material successfully in numerous seminar settings, Called to Serve will benefit readers involved with any of the wide range of volunteer-based organizations, from boards of churches, hospitals, and libraries to boards of public works, foundations, and schools.

Max DePree is chairman of the board of directors of Herman Miller, Inc., the primary innovator in the furniture business for sixty years and regularly included among the top twenty-five firms on Fortune's list of the the most admired companies in the United States. De Pree pioneered the use of profit sharing, gain sharing, work teams, and other participatory management practices. He is the author of the bestseller Leadership Jazz. Ma DePree was recently elected by Fortune magazine to the National Business Hall of Fame.

Preface Getting Started The Marks of an Effective Board The Work of the Board The Design of the Board Structure The Role of the Chairperson What Does a Trustee Promise? A Chairperson's Guide Living with Tensions What the Board Owes the President Last Things

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