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What Role Do You Play in Board Conversations?
Author(s) -
Kolias Athens
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
board leadership
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1542-7862
pISSN - 1061-4249
DOI - 10.1002/bl.30090
Subject(s) - feeling , center (category theory) , voting , corporate governance , editorial board , state (computer science) , management , political science , psychology , public relations , sociology , law , social psychology , library science , computer science , economics , chemistry , algorithm , politics , crystallography
Most, if not all Board Leadership readers will have participated in or observed a board meeting, and witnessed directors following an agenda, talking at each other for a while and then calling and seconding motions before voting and finally adjourning their meeting, feeling satisfied that they've “got something done.” Sounds pretty normal. But here, Athens Kolias, governance consultant and adjunct professor at San Francisco State University Center for Extended Learning, asks, “Is normal the best they can do?”