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Eight Steps for Effective Board Decisions

Robert R. Thompson and Gerald R. Thompson, authors of Organizing for Accountability, suggest that a board needs to take eight steps to make effective decisions:

• Ask relevant questions.
• Evaluate information, but do not assume all necessary information has been provided.
• Examine the known alternatives.
• Weigh risks and rewards.
• Seek the opinion of experts.
• Consider everything in the light of biblical values.
• Fulfill the church’s purposes.
• Decide.

—T. Ray Rachels, Irvine, California