Enlightenment

I just rotated off a nonprofit board after two terms and term limits. It’s never easy to be on a board, nor is it always easy to be staff or my colleague on a board.

And, I think every organization I’ve ever served, has been better off than before I arrived. Absolutely not solely – or even mostly – because of me. But, the difficult issues have been dealt with and there are never unspoken elephants in the room.

Poor Steven has endured whatever grief I’ve felt, since it’s not without personal angst, insecurity and second guessing.

I’ve served on nearly 80 nonprofit boards during the last 25 years. I would say this situation has been true – in a substantial sense – in only a dozen or so. Though, they have been among the 25 largest.