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How’s Your Board’s Psychic RAM?

How’s Your Board’s Psychic RAM?

Leading productivity expert David Allen, author of Getting Things Done, has coined a fascinating phrase: “Psychic RAM.” He argues that as individuals, when we try to keep our “to do” lists in our heads, we are tying up valuable RAM. Consequently, we have no creative...
The Power of Words

The Power of Words

“Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs.” Pearl Strachan Hurd Words, more powerful than an atom bomb? Words are risky. We must think about our words carefully! Risk is the possibility that something bad will happen. In Policy Governance® is...
Policies and Monitoring:  More or Less

Policies and Monitoring: More or Less

More policy is not necessarily better, and less may sometimes be more.  John Carver went so far as to headline his November 1997 Board Leadership article, “Honey, I Shrunk the Policies,” with the sentence “In Policymaking, More is Definitely Not Better.” A board I’m...

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