Bob Harris and Mark Alcorn

Bob Harris, CAE, provides free governance tools and templates at The NonProfit Center. He is on the faculty for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and has worked in Amman, Jordan, Tokyo, Japan, Kiev, Ukraine and Minsk, Belarus to help organizations. Bob received “Association Partner of the Year” award from Association Trends Magazine in 2012, and he has authored books on association management. To improve management he created the Association Self-Auditing Process, used by more than 20,000 organizations. He believes that nonprofit organizations should be as efficient as any commercial business.

Mark D. Alcorn is an attorney and association management consultant. He can be contacted at www.alcornlaw.com.

Articles by Bob Harris and Mark Alcorn

• Top 10 signs of a dysfunctional board

  Monday, January 20, 2020

  In 2002, attorney Mark D. Alcorn pointed out the key indicators of a dysfunctional association board of directors. He said, "I believe the troubled boards outnumber focused, efficient boards by a substantial margin. When a board of directors has more than its share of trouble and struggles, it can be dysfunctional. The presence of more than a few of these signs is cause for concern," he added. I wanted to review the dysfunctions identified nearly two decades ago to check their relevance to today.