Here We Go Again: The Cyclical Nature of Board Behavior (Spring 2011)

If nonprofit board behavior seems to go in circles, it’s probably because boards really do cycle from attentiveness to inattentiveness. Julia Classen revisits a framework, introduced almost twenty years ago by Miriam Wood, that describes the three recurring phases all nonprofit boards go through after their founding period, reminding us that crises are a necessary part of healthy board development. by Julia Classen