YOU'RE READING YOUR LOCAL NEWSPAPER AND YOU come across this headline "Financial Woes, Board Defections Hurt Arts Center: Former board members question executive director's decisions." Well, that's a little gut-wrenching (particularly if you work or volunteer in the nonprofit sector, or if you're an ED). How would you react? You'd probably dig right into that article, wouldn't you? Would you also ask yourself what the heck is going on that it's so bad to have made this kind of news? As you pick your way through the article it becomes clearer that taking the ugly stuff to the press is a symptom of more deeply rooted dysfunctionality. Sure, we readers can see it in a instant -- the lid's just blown off a whole kettle full of long-standing problems: lack of internal communication (particularly between the board and the CEO) misunderstanding of roles and responsibilities (on either or both the board's and CEO's parts) misplaced...