To our clients, friends and associates who are the CEO/owner/operator of your business – this post is for you. It’s my annual “No, you don’t have to, but you really should.” So, we’re now in the 4th quarter of 2023. The year is almost over. Well, sort of. Only the...
That expression will be familiar to readers who have served on boards of directors or have had some decent board governance training. They will agree with it or not, often largely depending on their relationship with the company. Since I have served on, and chaired, a...
To my Board director friends: How do you guide long range thinking without overstepping your job description? I am a longstanding board member of a mid-sized nonprofit organization that is about to develop their next strategic plan – a 3-year look into the future of...
This post is for privately owned companies and nonprofit organizations that have Boards that they want to make more effective, or those that don’t have Boards but realize they should have. This applies equally to advisory boards as well as fiduciary boards, except...
We’re all reading about the increasingly common risk of cybersecurity exposure, the bad actors launching attacks from all over the world, and the embarrassing press announcements by companies that have been victims of these attacks. What doesn’t make the news is what...