Are you future board ready?
My route to board service has been more like a game of hopscotch. In my early 20s I was a nominee director on several of the startup boards our venture capital firm invested in. I had zero training and, in retrospect, provided little value beyond my executive role helping the companies with their...
How Boards Add Value in a Crisis
When a company finds itself in crisis, what is the role of the board and its directors?
We discussed a recent company snafu in a previous blog and I make a regular study of companies which make the headlines due to their poor governance (Theranos, Wirecard, Wells Fargo, Toshiba) as...
Learning from the Failure of the Titan
When I read the tragic tale of the Titan Submersible which imploded a week ago, killing all five people aboard, I had a familiar sinking feeling.
“Where was the board?”
Like in the collapse of Theranos, WeWork, Weinstein & Co, Wirecard….where was the board?
My...
