by Joseph Inskeep | Sep 19, 2017 | Joseph Inskeep
The topic of candor got a boost this year from the popular book Radical Candor by Kim Scott (1), a retired Google/Apple veteran and management coach who believes the right kind of candor is a critical factor in personal and organizational success. Kim has YouTubed...
by Joseph Inskeep | Aug 8, 2017 | Joseph Inskeep
More policy is not necessarily better, and less may sometimes be more. John Carver went so far as to headline his November 1997 Board Leadership article, “Honey, I Shrunk the Policies,” with the sentence “In Policymaking, More is Definitely Not Better.” A board I’m...
by Joseph Inskeep | Jun 20, 2017 | Joseph Inskeep
Family businesses make up a larger percentage of the economy than many people realize. The Family Firm Institute (FFI) notes that family firms * account for two thirds of businesses worldwide, between 70%-90% of global GDP and 50%-80% of jobs in the majority of...
by Joseph Inskeep | Dec 20, 2016 | Joseph Inskeep
Are your board members chosen for name recognition? For their management skills? For their connections or fund-raising capacity? For their ability to work as a productive team? Boards and managers do very different yet equally essential work. Boards govern, not...
by Joseph Inskeep | Sep 13, 2016 | Joseph Inskeep
Jannice Moore, our company founder, named our firm The Governance Coach™. While coaching is just one of our services, we emphasize it in the name because we’ve found coaching to be the most effective way to help boards realize and sustain a culture of governance...
