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Is It Good Enough to Be Responsible and Accurate?
Author(s) -
Kolias Athens
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
board leadership
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1542-7862
pISSN - 1061-4249
DOI - 10.1002/bl.30118
Subject(s) - corporate governance , editorial board , diversity (politics) , center (category theory) , on board , work (physics) , state (computer science) , public relations , political science , management , sociology , law , computer science , engineering , library science , economics , algorithm , mechanical engineering , chemistry , crystallography , aerospace engineering
As Board Leadership readers increasingly see scandals at the board level making the news, one question that arises is about how clearly expectations are communicated. As board members go about their normal daily work, they often operate under an assumption that everyone on the board has read from the same dictionary, even as they increase efforts to bring more diversity into the boardroom. Here, Athens Kolias, governance consultant and adjunct professor at the San Francisco State University Center for Extended Learning, asks, “Do boards realize they may not be speaking the same language?”