by Jannice Moore | May 23, 2017 | Jannice Moore
Does your board have a habit of being alone together? I’ve witnessed too many board meetings where board members’ smart phones are always close at hand. They may be blatantly obvious, they may be on vibrate, they may be surreptitiously checked under the table, or...
by Jannice Moore | Apr 25, 2017 | Jannice Moore
I recently read a fascinating book, Brain Chains, by Theo Compernolle. It got me thinking about the way in which boards unwittingly “chain” their collective brains. Drawing extensively on psychological and neurological research, Compernolle describes three brain...
by Jannice Moore | Feb 28, 2017 | Jannice Moore
When recently re-reading some excerpts from Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, it struck me that they are scarily similar to some board policies I’ve seen in my experience. Perhaps as boards we can take some lessons from Alice’s adventure about writing...
by Jannice Moore | Jan 3, 2017 | Jannice Moore
Did your board make any New Year’s Resolutions? (I don’t mean the kind that say, “RESOLVED: to accept the budget.”) I’m here to suggest that your board NOT make resolutions. Too often, resolutions end up being wishful thinking. Unless they are truly a COMMITMENT,...
