“I'm very involved in FIU. I'm class of '96 and my wife is class of '97. I'm a member of the foundation board. We talk about where the university is strategically and the evolution of programs for the near and distant future.” ClassWifeEvolutionInvolvedMembersProgramFoundationUniversityMy WifeBoards Author:Danny Pino
“That first responsibility as a school board member - meals for latch-key children - was absolutely critical in my understanding of the extraordinary problems of poverty.” FirstsChildrenProblemSchoolUnderstandingResponsibilityPovertyKeysMembersExtraordinaryCriticalBoardsMealsLatchesSchool BoardBoard Members Author:Richard Lugar
“We had a very good number of mayors participate this year. All the mayors rode out with regular volunteers as well as members of our advisory council and our board members.” YearsWellsNumbersMembersVery GoodBoardsVolunteerParticipationCouncilMayorsAdvisoryBoard Members Author:Amy Jackson
“The Open Market Committee, as presently established, is plainly not in the public interest. This committee must be operated by purely public servants, representatives of the people as a whole and not any single interest group. The Open Market Committee should be abolished, and its powers transferred to the Federal Reserve Board - the present public members of the committee, with reasonably short terms of office.” PeopleShouldWholeWisdomPoliticsTermInterestEconomyGroupsMembersOfficeServantBoardsLiberalismRepresentativesReservesCommitteesShort TermFederal ReservePublic InterestPublic ServantsInterest Groups Author:Wright Patman
“I am a political recidivist. An incorrigible, repeat voter. A career lever-pusher. My electoral rap sheet is as long as your arm. Over the course of three decades, I have voted for presidents and school board members. I have voted in high hopes and high dudgeon. I have voted in favor of candidates and merely against their opponents. I have voted for propositions written with such complexity that I needed Noam Chomsky to deconstruct their meaning. I have been a single-issue voter and a marginal voter. I have even voted for people who ran unopposed. Hold an election and I'll be there.” PeopleLongHas BeensSchoolPoliticalThreeCoursesPresidentCareersIssuesWrittenArmsNeededMembersElectionRapDecadesFavorsRanBoardsOpponentsComplexityRepeatsCandidatesVotersSheetsPropositionsLeversIncorrigibleSchool BoardBoard Members Author:Ellen Goodman
“Actually I'd had a certain amount of experience in Europe in the inter-war period, as a banker, and I was also a member of the Board of Directors of the International Chamber of Commerce.” WarCertainAmountPeriodsDirectorsMembersEuropeInternationalBoardsCommerceChamberBankersBoard Of DirectorsChamber Of Commerce Author:W. Averell Harriman
“Many cults start off with high ideals that get corrupted by leaders or their board of advisors who become power-hungry and dominate and control members lives. No group with high ideals starts off as a cult; they become one when their errant ways are exposed.” WayLeaderGroupsMembersIdealsHungryBoardsExposedCultAdvisorsPower Hungry Author:Philip Zimbardo
“We as a nation need to be reeducated about the necessary and sufficient conditions for making human beings human. We need to be reeducated not as parents--but as workers, neighbors, and friends; and as members of the organizations, committees, boards--and, especially, the informal networks that control our social institutions and thereby determine the conditions of life for our families and their children.” NeedsHumansChildrenNationsSocialParentHuman BeingsEducationSocietyConditionsMembersOrganizationInstitutionsWorkersDetermineNeighborOur FamilyBoardsSufficientCommitteesBeing HumanSocial InstitutionsNeighbors And Friends Author:Urie Bronfenbrenner
“Every time I open the paper, there's some symphony orchestra collapsing somewhere in the United States. What the hell is going on? And then you find out that the board members try to run these things as businesses.” TryingStatesRunningUnitedUnited StatesHellMembersPaperBoardsOrchestraSymphonySymphony OrchestrasBoard Members Author:Brice Marden
“A board member of mine used to say sales fix everything in a startup, and that is really true.” UsedMinesMembersBoardsReally TrueBoard Members Author:Sam Altman
“Why talk of the team when our Cricket Board is like an exclusive club with members being there for years on end? If they can stay on without performing, the players too feel they can stay in the team without too big a performance.” IfsFeelsYearsEndsBigsMotivationalPlayerTeamMembersPerformancesClubsPerformingBoardsCricketExclusiveBeing There Author:Sunil Gavaskar
“But the best thing Washington can do for education is realize that our role is limited. Washington must keep its promises, but let those who know our childrens' names- parents, teachers and school board members- make education decisions.” KnowsSchoolNamesParentCan DoRealizingDecisionRolesTeacherPromiseMembersOur ChildrenBest ThingsBoardsBest TeacherSchool BoardBoard Members Author:Mark Kennedy
“The man of system, on the contrary, is apt to be very wise in his own conceit; and is often so enamoured with the supposed beauty of his own ideal plan of government, that he cannot suffer the smallest deviation from any part of it... He seems to imagine that he can arrange the different members of a great society with as much ease as the hand arranges the different pieces upon a chess-board. He does not consider that...in the great chess-board of human society, every single piece has a principle of motion of its own, altogether different from that which the legislature might choose to impress upon it.” MenHumansDoeDifferentHandsSeemsGovernmentMightSufferingPrinciplesPiecesWiseImaginePlansHe ManMembersIdealsInvestingChessEaseBoardsImagine ThatSmallestImpressConceitLegislatureHuman SocietyDeviationVery WiseWealth Of NationsGreat Society Author:Adam Smith
“I do like to keep abreast of what the hardcore vocal members of the comics-reading audience are talking about on Internet message boards, but there are so few of them, as a percentage of the buying audience, that I can't allow their opinions to dictate story direction.” I CanStoriesReadingTalkingOpinionAudienceInternetMembersMessagesBoardsBuyingVocalPercentagesHardcore Author:Grant Morrison
“We have it in our heads that women only need to take up a certain amount of space and then we've done right by them. It's the same in every profession. We get a handful of women professors, a few female board members - that looks normal.” NeedsLooksDoneCertainSpaceAmountMembersNormalFemaleProfessionBoardsProfessorsHandfulBoard Members Author:Geena Davis
“Facebook is not ideologically neutral. In fact, it emerges from a very particular world view which we can trace back to Hobbes. I discovered this by examining the profile of Zuckerberg's fellow board members who, unlike him, are a very interesting bunch and, I suspect, the real power behind the poster boy.” WorldRealFactsInterestingViewsBehindsBoysParticularMembersFellowsBunchBoardsSuspectsVery InterestingProfilePostersExaminingWorld ViewReal PowerHobbesZuckerbergBoard Members Author:Tom Hodgkinson
“How a club is run is what matters to me. The fewer board members, the better. If it's 18, I'm just not interested.” IfsMatterRunningMembersClubsBoardsFewerNot InterestedWhat MattersBoard Members Author:Ernst Happel
“A board member should be perfectly willing to leave at any time and willing to make the tough calls.” ShouldWillingMembersToughBoardsBoard Members Author:Charlie Munger
“We need strong school board members who know right from wrong. The Bible, being the only true source of right and wrong, should be the guide of board members. Only godly Christians can truly qualify for this critically important position.” KnowsNeedsShouldImportantSchoolChristianStrongPositionSourceMembersGuidesBoardsGodlySchool BoardBoard Members Author:Robert Simonds
“As a school board member, I might have particular views about the ways we might increase the economics curriculum in a local high school, but I'm not sure I should mandate that for the entire country.” WayShouldCountryMightSchoolViewsParticularMembersHigh SchoolEconomicsIncreaseLocalsBoardsNot SureCurriculumMandatesSchool BoardBoard Members Author:Zephyr Teachout
“Exodus is a very large organization. My board of directors is supportive of me as the president of Exodus and are very much involved in my decision-making and those types of things. They're a wonderful and balanced group of people and I'm grateful for their support. Within the membership we have 270 or so members within the network of Exodus whether that's a local member ministry, a counselor or one of our members of our church association.” PeoplePresidentChurchDecisionSupportWonderfulGroupsTypeInvolvedDirectorsMembersOrganizationGratefulLocalsBoardsDecision MakingAssociationBalancedMinistrySupportiveMembershipCounselorBoard Of DirectorsExodus Author:Alan Chambers
“I want Christians to consider who they vote for. We look a lot at the presidential elections. And that's where so much of our focus is, especially from the media, but some of the most important elections are the local elections - the mayors, city council members, county commissioners, school boards. How important school boards are - and we need to get Christian men and women running for office. We need Christian men and women not only running for office, but voting and getting behind other Christians that are running for office.” MenWantNeedsLooksImportantRunningSchoolChristianCitiesBehindsFocusMediaMembersOfficeMen And WomenVoteElectionLocalsPresidentialBoardsVotingCouncilCountyMayorsPresidential ElectionCommissionersRunning For OfficeSchool BoardCity Council Author:Franklin Graham
“I realized that in all the sectors of society where there's a huge gender disparity, the one place that can be fixed overnight is onscreen. You think about getting half of Congress, or the presidency ... It's going to take a while no matter how hard we work on it. But half of the board members and half of the CEOs can be women in the next movie somebody makes; it can be absolutely half.” ThinkingMatterHardNextHalfHugeMembersCongressGenderI RealizedFixedBoardsCeoPresidencyDisparityBoard Members Author:Geena Davis
“I believe the publisher is a member of the editorial board, and I think his vote would matter.” ThinkingBelieveMatterI BelieveMembersVoteBoardsPublishersEditorials Author:Gene Weingarten
“Many flagship state universities have wonderful digital libraries that are accessed by people around the world. In future, if not current, budget crises, trustees, board members, and administrators may wonder why these state institutions - with an articulated primary clientele of students, faculty, and staff members and a secondary clientele of all citizens of the state - should be spending resources on a digital library that is used by many people beyond the primary and secondary service populations.” PeopleIfsWorldShouldMayStatesUsedWonderWonderfulStudentsCitizensMembersResourcesCrisisInstitutionsLibraryUniversityPopulationCurrentsSpendingAround The WorldPrimariesBudgetsBoardsDigitalFacultyStaffAdministratorsTrusteesBoard MembersStaff Members Author:Tom Peters