Hardy Smith’s Stop the Nonprofit Board Blame Game is a treasure of a book! For anyone who will work with a nonprofit board, this book is a must-read! I voluntarily read and reviewed this complimentary copy of this well-written book. I will refer to this book often on my nonprofit journey.

Thank you, River Grove Books, for the advance reading copy.

While this book gives the best practical steps on how to make Board relationships functional despite an existing failing one.

The tips given in this guidebook are few and simple to grasp and follow. However, nothing is as easy as it sounds especially when it comes to organisations, unexpected challenges and a team to handle.

The highlights of this new book would be the action oriented steps that would initiate the tips in general to adopt.

The chapters are short. The writing is easy for everyone to follow and understand.

The best part would be the areas where it is given with realistic scenarios on how to handle various conflicts we would face.

Go for this book if you're already in working or even if you're just entering into this world where you would face such situations and different people in a working environment.

You will gain lots from it. This book can be used as a manual guide as well for new trainees and will be specially useful for newly promoted staffs.

I am recommending this book to the leadership team of the small non-profit on which I serve as a board member. Smith's book is a great read for board members too. He weaves insights from board members from all types of organizations as well as references to books and articles with helpful tips on how best to leverage the relationships between boards and staff to help organizations achieve high performance. He talks about the importance of board selection and how to engage each board member as an individual and as a team. There are many helpful insights here that will be helpful to any not-for-profit board and staff.

I recommend this book.

This book does a good job of exploring things that go wrong with nonprofit boards. But, the offered solutions are both overwhelming and vague. Laundry lists I’d to dos without clarity regarding whose job it is to do these things. Executive director? Board chair? A few nuggets here. Might be a good reference