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Who Determines Your Board’s Agenda?

Who Determines Your Board’s Agenda?

Your answer will give you an insight into whether your board is governing or supervising management. If management is putting together the board’s agenda based on its needs for the board’s approval of their proposals, it’s unlikely your board is leading. Instead, it’s...
We’ve Always Done it This Way…

We’ve Always Done it This Way…

As I cleared away the remainder of our Easter ham this week, I was reminded of an old story.  “Mom, why do you always cut the end off the ham before cooking it?” asked the youngster. “Well, that’s the way my mother always did it.”  “But why did she do it...
The Best Boards Maximize Time on One Type of Information

The Best Boards Maximize Time on One Type of Information

How many times have you sat in a board meeting wondering why you were discussing what you were discussing and feeling frustrated that the “real” issues weren’t being discussed? Often that frustration can be traced to one key issue: The board doesn’t understand how to...