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Is Your Board Manacled by the Miniscule?
I am shamelessly stealing this idea from a recent book, Life Work Legacy, by motivational speaker and friend Jeffrey Tobin. In a short essay – akin to a blog – titled “Gullible’s Travels,” he draws a leadership lesson from Jonathan Swift’s book Gulliver’s Travels....
How Confident are you that your board’s direction reflects its current values?
“The unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates Consider for a moment who you were twenty years ago (or more accurately, who you perceive yourself to have been.) Compare that picture, those memories, with who you understand yourself to be now. All of us will...
Democratically Elected Board? Here’s What Voters Deserve to Know
Recently, I received an email from a large international association of which I am a member. The email asked me to vote for directors for the board and included a list of candidates and short biographical information about these very accomplished people. This included...
Risk and Resilience
One of the fundamental roles of a board is to protect the organization. If you are serving on a board today, you know this is not a simple undertaking. You are governing an organization in an increasingly volatile, complex, uncertain, and ambiguous (VUCA) context....
Real Stories About Policy Governance® Series – Policy Governance & The Board’s Image
https://youtu.be/tkxBZoHCTrU
Real Stories About Policy Governance® Series – Committees or No Committees
To have board committees or not to have board committees? That is the question. Three Policy Governance consultants talk about the pros and cons in this quick panel discussion. https://youtu.be/m9MsOPlnAeY
Real Stories About Policy Governance® Series – Risk
Welcome to Week 4 of our mini series. Today our panel discusses how Policy Governance addresses risk management. Does your board have a system in place to address the known and the unknown? https://youtu.be/e63H7JZhvQA
Real Stories About Policy Governance® Series – Accountability at All Levels
Here’s the third of our mini videos: Accountability at All Levels, with Policy Governance consultants, Richard Stringham, Jannice Moore and Rose Mercier in a panel discussion. https://youtu.be/LwPCQwyytDw
Real Stories About Policy Governance® Series – Board and CEO Relationship
The second in our fall series of mini videos for boards. If you’re the CEO or a board member, this one’s for you! https://youtu.be/dTcBImRV7AE
Real Stories About Policy Governance® Series – Board Agenda Placement
Welcome to our fall mini video series! Over the next several weeks we’ll send you short stories of how the Policy Governance® Model impacts real people and real boards that deal with real situations. In our first video we ask: when does your board...