Corporate Governance Lessons: Why Boards Fail
Why Boards Fail Often (more often than it seems) Strong governance is an important concept. In theory, it leads to organizational health and sustainability. Unfortunately, the reality is that [...]
What is Corporate Governance PPT
What is Corporate Governance? Corporate governance is most effective when Directors share a common definition of corporate governance, the Board’s governance role and the key building blocks for achieving [...]
Board Assessment Tool: Governance or Operating Board?
What Association Board type are you - oversight or operations? As Boards of Directors strive to improve their governance effectiveness, a key challenge many face is striking the [...]
Board Composition: what’s the right size Board of Directors?
Board Composition and Board Size. How many Directors should your Board have? Nine. Seven. Nineteen. Ok. It depends. Here’s how to think about it: The logic of Board Size [...]
When is a Governance Board Too Deep into the Operation?
Is your Board too deep into the operation? Generally, we find that Directors are very aware – perhaps too aware – of crossing the line from governance into operations. It [...]
Corporate Governance: Top 4 Board Evaluation Findings
Here are the four most common findings from our Board evaluation work: 1. Many Directors lack a common understanding of the Board's role. A critical step in every Board [...]
Association Governance: Board Composition Values Competence
As association governance evolves, Board composition increasingly values Director competence. Competency based Boards engage Directors based on their specific knowledge and expertise. Traditionally, associations and many other NFP Boards [...]
A Client Good News Story Makes Us Proud
Governance, Strategy and Leadership ‘Tell your story. Please tell your story.’ For the past year that’s what we’ve been encouraging one of our clients – The Canadian Hearing Society – [...]
4 Steps to Better Private Business Strategy
“Strategy is a waste of time”. Lots of private business owners we know feel this way because their private business has achieved a high degree of success without strategy. Why [...]