John Carver & Miriam Carver 
A Carver Policy Governance Guide, Volume 1, Revised and Updated, The Policy Governance Model and the Role of the Board Member [PDF ebook] 

The Carver Policy Governance Guide series includes six
booklets that offer board members a description of John Carver’s
Policy Governance model of board leadership. Policy Governance
enables a board to fulfill its accountability to its organization’s
'owners, ’ whether the owners are association members, city
residents, company shareholders, or a community of interest. Policy
Governance addresses the board’s engagement in financial,
programmatic, and personnel matters; roles of officers and
committees; reporting and evaluation; agendas; and other aspects of
the board job.

The Policy Governance Model and the Role of the Board
Member sets out a clear vision for excellence in board
leadership. It gives board members an understanding of the concepts
and principles that are at the very heart of John Carver’s
innovative Policy Governance model. This guide details members’
main tasks and presents the guidelines needed to transform a board
into an effective group that consistently leads powerfully.

The Policy Governance model is based on the functions rather
than the structure of a governing board. It outlines commonsense
principles about governing that fit together into an entire system.
The practices of the Policy Governance board, which are consistent
with the principles, allow it to control without meddling, focus on
long-term organizational outputs, powerfully delegate to a CEO and
staff, and discharge its fiduciary responsibility in a visionary,
strategic manner. Because the model is a total system, the Carver
Policy Governance Guide series offers boards a complete set of
principles for fulfilling their various obligations.

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John Carver is internationally known as the creator of the
breakthrough in board leadership called the Policy Governance model
and is the best-selling author of Boards That Make a
Difference (1990, 1997, 2006). He is co-editor (with his wife,
Miriam Carver) of the bimonthly periodical Board Leadership,
author of over 180 articles published in nine countries, and author
or co-author of six books. For over thirty years, he has worked
internationally with governing boards, his principal practice being
in the United States and Canada. Dr. Carver is an editorial review
board member of Corporate Governance: An International
Review, adjunct professor in the University of Georgia
Institute for Nonprofit Organizations, and formerly adjunct
professor in York University’s Schulich School of Business.

Miriam Carver is a Policy Governance author and
consultant. She has authored or co-authored over forty articles on
the Policy Governance model and co-authored three books, including
Reinventing Your Board and The Board Member’s
Playbook. She has worked with the boards of nonprofit,
corporate, governmental, and cooperative organizations on four
continents. Ms. Carver is the co-editor of the bimonthly periodical
Board Leadership and, with John Carver, trains consultants
in the theory and implementation of Policy Governance in the Policy
Governance Academy.