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If you’re a board chair or member, chances are you’re no stranger to backbiting, infighting, and even incompetence. You want to make the best possible decisions for your organization, but all too often disruptive, apathetic, or self-absorbed members threaten to derail your meetings and impede the ability of your board to make smart choices. 101 Boardroom Problems and How to Solve Them gives you practical tools to prevent and deal with dozens of difficult situations, from infighting and indecision to incompetence and conflicts of interest.

As a board effectiveness consultant and meeting management expert, Eli Mina is a well-seasoned veteran who has dealt with just about any problem a board can face. Here he reveals how to identify all manner of disruptive board dysfunctions, and curb the damage they can inflict. You’ll be able to deal with boardroom problems with confidence, minimize or prevent flawed decisions, and make your board more credible and trustworthy with its community and stakeholders.  Using the book’s helpful tools and techniques, you will be able to:

• -Deal with dysfunctional board members.
• -Reduce tensions, and identify the hot-button issues that can jeopardize any board.
• -Cope with apathetic board members and indecision.
• -Address general meeting problems like deadlocks and irrelevant side conversations.

The book includes a comprehensive board effectiveness audit as well as easy-to-use forms for evaluating individual members, the board chair, and the CEO, and invaluable tips on giving and taking feedback (especially important among people with strong egos). In short, you can count on this as the one book that will help eliminate the disputes, disruptions, and problems that can make board meetings unproductive and prevent even the most effective board from achieving its mission.