A Board Chair asked me recently “As you evaluate boards week to week, what characterises the “very best of the best” that you see?” I responded indicating that all of
In a recent webinar on how boards have been handling the Covid-19 crisis, an experienced non-executive director put the following question to me during our Q&A session : “My company
In our board best practices workshop, one of the interesting exercises we set for the board team is to imagine a scenario where the next few board meetings are streamed
A veteran board chair once hauled me over the coals for recommending as part of an external board evaluation the addition of a female non-executive director (NED) to improve the
A veteran non-executive board director (NED) shared with me in recent days some valuable insights into the workings of an experienced board dealing with severe impacts to their organisation due
The relationship and engagement between a Board Chair and CEO has a fundamental importance for and impact on a board’s effectiveness and performance. Where this relationship is too close, it
A company board chair asked me late last year for guidance on a dilemma he was struggling with in terms of one of his strongest non-executive directors coming up to
“My board frustrate the hell out of me, we put in a huge effort into producing our board packs and I seriously question if they read them properly, they are
