by Eric Phinney | May 6, 2020 | Eric Phinney
I just completed a weeklong meeting with an international organization that I chair. Normally, to minimize travel costs, we meet only twice a year for 5 days. Facing the restrictions for COVID-19 was daunting. Could we get...
by Eric Phinney | Apr 7, 2020 | Eric Phinney
Board work involves a lot of documents; documents that we are to agree on; documents that get reviewed, interpreted, moved, adopted and reviewed again. If you have not already discovered it, Google Docs can give an organization a real boost in efficiency. In this...
by Eric Phinney | Mar 18, 2020 | Eric Phinney
By now, if you are a board chair, you have most likely canceled any upcoming face to face meetings. The question arises: what to do now? There are still critical matters of governance that need to be carried out. Some organizations have already been using...
by Eric Phinney | Mar 4, 2020 | Eric Phinney
Last winter my wife and I cruised the coast of Florida in our sailboat. We happened upon the city of St. Augustine and were thrilled by the number of attractions. We ended up staying an extra day as we had seen an advert for free winery,...
by Eric Phinney | Feb 19, 2020 | Eric Phinney
Is your board a product of many years of tradition with a few tweaks thrown in by well-meaning experts or based on books read by members? Perhaps it is time for an overhaul? But wait, things are working, sort of, and we wouldn’t want to change too much too fast. If...
by Eric Phinney | Jan 8, 2020 | Eric Phinney
I am always pleased when I am invited by an organization to come and help them with their board of directors. Then comes the fine tuning of the invitation. They have requested to see all the various “systems” of board governance and learn...
