CEO RESOURCES

SUMMARY OF SELECTED COMMENTS, INSIGHTS & AXIOMS
   [  ] CEO Dialogues: April 8, 2010 (Phoenix)
   [  ] CEO Dialogues: April 19, 2010 (San Diego at CLA)
   [  ] CEO Dialogues: June 3, 2010 (Colorado Springs)
   [  ] CEO Dialogues: Sept. 21, 2010 (Brea, Calif.)

 TRUSTEE WEBSITES

• The Andringa Group (Bob Andringa)
• Gammon & Grange, P.C. (Chip Grange)
• Christian Camping Foundation (Bob Kobielush)
• John Pearson Associates, Inc. (John Pearson)
• The Navigators (Jerry White)

OTHER ORGANIZATIONS/WEBSITES

• BoardSource - Building Effective Nonprofit Boards
• Leader to Leader Institute - To Strengthen the Leadership of the Social Sector

BOOKS

• Good to Great and the Social Sector (Jim Collins) - Why Business Thinking Is Not the Answer
• The Imperfect Board Member (Jim Brown) - Discovering the Seven Disciplines of Governance Excellence
• 650 Essential Nonprofit Law Questions Answered (Bruce R. Hopkins)

• More "Best Books" listed at The Andringa Group website and at John Pearson's Buckets Blog (archives for his eNewsletter, Your Weekly Staff Meeting)

WORKSHOPS AND TRAINING

• CEO Dialogues - Off-the-Record 1-day Dialogues for CEOs of Nonprofit Christian Organizations
• Christian Leadership Alliance - Leadership Training and Management Resources for Christian Organizations and Growing Churches

IDEAS, QUOTES AND TRENDS!

• "All boards have one thing in common--they do not function." (Peter Drucker)
• "Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs." (Peter Drucker) 
• "At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right." (Bill Gates)
• “If all you give are orders,” writes U.S. Navy Captain D. Michael Abrashoff in his book, It's Your Ship, “then all you will get are order-takers.”