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You Want to Measure What?
In my decade-long path of helping boards and CEOs implement practices that support the elegant governance system that is Policy Governance®, I have learned that monitoring is both embraced and cursed. Embraced for its promise of providing evidence that the...
Is Your Board Sprouting Suckers?
I recently had an old lilac tree removed from my yard and had someone come to grind out the main stump. Then I decided it would be a good place to create a new garden bed, but there was a lot of work to be done to prepare the bed. Since my approach to life is to...
2 FOCUS (or Not 2 Focus)
Driving a car responsibly requires that we keep our focus in at least two arenas: one near at hand and the other more distant. Near at hand we must negotiate a complex, changing environment of pedestrians, traffic and potentially dicey road conditions. Lose our...
What’s Trust Got to Do With It?
Not too many minutes ago, the plane I am sitting on took off and is taking me home. I’m anxious to return. I’ve been on the road for a while and look forward to home and connecting with those I love. It’s the beginning of the winter weather where I am, so I know that...
What do you really want to know?
Have you ever been to a board meeting where it seems one board member beats around the bush trying to get information, but won’t ask a direct question? Instead, the person asks for a direct inspection of one item after another. “Just spit it out,” other board members...
What a Board Approves, it Owns
I was about 11 years old when I attended my first auction sale. I quickly got the idea how the system worked and as a budding entrepreneur I got into the bidding and ended up outbidding everyone else, in the process scoring an antique rocking chair for two dollars....
Evolving Governance Practices or new Governance Technology?
These days, we have come to expect remarkable changes in our lives based on technological innovations. Could such innovations apply to governance? In his informative and charming video lectures, Professor Bob Tricker explains how corporate governance has evolved over...
Becoming “Most Ethical”
I read a wide variety of articles and reports –sometimes because they help to understand the breadth of thinking about governance, sometimes to help me reflect on how Policy Governance® can support increasingly impactful governance, sometimes just out of curiosity....
Kinda’ Doing Policy Governance®
You are likely reading this blog because you have some familiarity with a board which professes to be using Policy Governance®. Maybe your board has been using the “Carver model” for years or it is using a hybrid model of Policy Governance. I was hardly aware of...
