Insights
Ideas for the work of governing.
Perspectives on the decisions, relationships, and questions that boards and chief executives work through. Read for a fresh way to think about an issue on your own agenda.
AI oversight: finding the board’s role
AI uses can raise very different questions about opportunity, risk, and trust. A useful board discussion starts with what the organization is doing and who could be affected.
A strategic plan that helps your board make choices
A plan can look convincing and still leave the organization unsure what to do next. A useful board conversation brings priorities, tradeoffs, and different expectations into view.
When the CEO says the board is micromanaging
What feels like micromanagement to a CEO may look like necessary oversight to directors. Understanding the difference takes more than drawing a line on an authority chart.
Board policies people actually use
A new policy can help with a recurring disagreement, but the wording is only part of the work. Start by understanding the responsibility people are struggling to interpret.
The book · In progress
Beyond Bylaws
Four Lenses for a Decision-Ready Board
Beyond Bylaws explores how boards make decisions in practice: the questions directors ask, the judgments they make, and how they work with the people who lead the organization.
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