The effective committee chair: a primer.

Abstract

The author summarizes his past work on committees with special emphasis on the Chair as leader, administrator, meeting head, and spokesperson. Articulating principles of agenda and temporal integrity, the "rule of halves," the "rule of three-fourths," and the "rule of thirds," Dr. Tropman provides a procedural checklist to help the new--and not-so-new--committee Chair evaluate committee performance.