Excerpt from The Job of Being a Trustee: Monograph I to Accompany Round Table Plan for Trustees of Institutions for Dependent Children In many cases precedents are established in a will or a deed of gift by the original donor who had little or no practical knowledge of the work to be undertaken. Many boards of trustees are dominated by the personality of one or two individuals of vigorous character who practically dictate the policy of the board while their fellow members do little but to record and give legal effect to their wishes. In other boards the opposite tendency is seen in the distribution of the work of administration among a number of committees which, acting independently, fail to develop a consistent and harmonious policy, with confusion and weakness as a result. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.