by Rose Mercier | Nov 14, 2024 | Rose Mercier
I work with a wide variety of boards when they develop their Ends policies for the first time. I usually start by emphasizing that Ends describe the long-term results that the board wants the organization to produce. I remind board members that Ends state who should...
by Paul Zilz | Feb 3, 2022 | Paul Zilz
Children ask questions that are both profound and require clear, age-appropriate responses. “Why is the sky blue?” Why does the sky have clouds?” “Why is there pink, red, and orange in the sky when the sun sets?” Behind each of these questions is a whole lot of...
by Richard Stringham | Jun 3, 2021 | Richard Stringham
In an interview on the CBC Radio program SPARK , Roger Martin, Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, contends that businesses’ obsession with efficiency over the past two centuries has gone too far. Although...
by Andrew Bergen | Oct 28, 2020 | Andrew Bergen
One of my favorite pieces of literature is Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. At one point in the story, Alice has an exchange with the Cheshire Cat that goes like this: Alice: “Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?”Cheshire Cat: “That...
by Rose Mercier | Jul 1, 2020 | Rose Mercier
I read a lot of stuff. Online and print, articles and books, the most recent releases and the not-so-current: governance, strategy, management, culture, measurement, news, technology, music, food, mysteries…you get the...
