Nailing Down a Board: Serving Effectively on the Not-for-Profit Board
Overview
Are you on a not-for-profit board? A church board? A business board? Or do you approach the thought of such a responsibility with trepidation?
Charles C. Ryrie has served on all sorts of boards, and he has thought much about their great opportunities. He has also noted problems that are common to boards:
- Finding good members
- Keeping them when they are found
- Resolving conflicts
- Using meeting times efficiently
- Overseeing financial accountability
The practical advice in this book addresses these and other issues for the novice or experienced board members. The principles are applicable to a wide variety of profit and not-for-profit organizations and ministries. Ryrie gives the reasons for having a board and the ingredients for managing them well.
Product Details
- Title: Nailing Down a Board: Serving Effectively on the Not-for-Profit Board
- Author: Charles C. Ryrie
- Publisher: Kregel
- Publication Date: 1999
- Pages: 96
About Charles C. Ryrie
Charles C. Ryrie is a renowned author and scholar. He has written dozens of books which have sold more than 1.5 million copies worldwide. As a scholar, he has served in several capacities throughout this career. He was ordained by the First Baptist Church in Alton, Illinois. He spent five years at Westmont College, first as professor, later as dean of men and chairman of biblical studies and philosophy. In 1958 he became president of Philadelphia College of Bible. He spent most of his career as a professor of systematic theology at Dallas Theological Seminary in Dallas, Texas. The father of three, he is now professor emeritus of systematic theology at Dallas Theological Seminary and acts as visiting professor of theology at Philadelphia College of Bible.
Top Highlights
“A third reason for needing boards is that they provide for accountability” (Page 22)
“Notice something about the apostles and the deacons that will keep coming up in this book: both groups knew what their particular mission was and kept that mission in clear focus, undiluted and undiverted as they carried it out. The apostles’ mission was to pray and minister the Word. The deacons’ was to care for the widows. Each group ‘stuck to its guns.’” (Page 20)
“The selection process should include the entire board.” (Page 28)
- Title: Nailing Down a Board: Serving Effectively on the Not-for-Profit Board
- Author: Charles Caldwell Ryrie
- Publisher: Kregel
- Print Publication Date: 1999
- Logos Release Date: 2010
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Directors of corporations; Nonprofit organizations › Management; Boards of directors
- ISBNs: 9780825436499, 0825436494
- Resource ID: LLS:NAILDWNBOARD
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T01:42:07Z
Charles Caldwell Ryrie (1925–2016) was a renowned author and scholar and key figure in the theology of dispensationalism. He received degrees from Haverford College, Dallas Theological Seminary, University of Edinburgh, and Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary.
Ryrie served as professor of systematic theology and dean of doctoral studies at Dallas Theological Seminary and professor at what is now Cairn University.
Along with frequently contributing to Bibliotheca Sacra, Ryrie authored over 25 books including Dr. Ryrie’s Articles, Transformed by his Glory, Nailing Down a Board: Serving Effectively on the Not-for-Profit Board, The Basis of Premillennial Faith, and Neo-orthodoxy.