This book comes with a promise after reading it you will never again think of board work the same as before. Good Governance is a Choice is a book about and for boards of public and nonprofit organizations. Its central focus is on public school boards and the special challenges they face but the governing model it introduces Coherent Governance is applicable to any board of any type. Coherent Governance is a policybased governing model that features a failproof means for creating absolute role clarity for boards and their CEOs. The model offers a process for boards to control operational decisions without making them allowing them to spend the dominant part of their time on what matterswhether the organization is delivering the goods for the clients it serves. The authors challenge readers to consider themselves to be the very first board elected or appointed to serve their organization and to thoughtfully craft a governance role and board processes to allow them to best do their workunencumbered by past practice and tradition. They draw from their combined 60plus years of experience in working with public and nonprofit boards as they present their stateoftheart governing model. show more