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<p>Conventional wisdom emphasizes the importance to a nonprofit organization of its core leadership: a healthy board chair-executive director relationship. Organizational effectiveness is at stake when this relationship is weak, or worse, dysfunctional. While such an assertion may seem intuitively correct, there is a lack of empirical work that explores the dynamics of this key relationship or its influence, if any, on the nonprofit organization.</p>



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The Board Chair- Executive Director Relationship: Dynamics that Create Value for Nonprofit Organizations