by Rose Mercier | Mar 26, 2020 | Rose Mercier
I just finished a newspaper article1 which has been stuck in my head. Here’s the earworm that has been playing over and over – although I realize it isn’t a musical tune, it has had the same effect – it wasn’t until the organization asked the right...
by Rose Mercier | Feb 26, 2020 | Rose Mercier
One of the changes a board experiences when it begins to use Policy Governance® is a move away from a more traditional decision-making process where the CEO requires the board’s...
by Rose Mercier | Feb 5, 2020 | Rose Mercier
In Policy Governance®, policies express a governing body’s values, so making those values explicit is the first step in answering a policy question. This is true of any important policy decision that a board wants to consider. One question a board may face is whether...
by Rose Mercier | Oct 23, 2019 | Rose Mercier
I read a series of reports in my local paper chronicling the hand-wringing of the board of a local municipal agency about what it could do about credit card expenses that had...
by Rose Mercier | Sep 4, 2019 | Rose Mercier
If you are buying a house or a car from the current owner, you want to know that the house or car is safe and operational as stated. After all, you don’t want to move in and discover a flooded basement at the end of the first rainy day, or have the car break down on...
