Mistakes startups make when building boards
Startup founders make some common mistakes when they seek to build boards and good governance for their companies. They are preventable and fixable.
Startups’ governance problem
Startups have a governance problem but it is solvable with good strategic thinking and knowledge of what to expect from board directors.
Grief, mental wellbeing and the workplace
Employers need to be proactive about addressing the challenges of grief, bereavement and trauma faced by employees.
Of life and death: the myth of control
Trying to control things is largely futile and suboptimal. Death, the only certainty in life, is unpredictable and out of our control. The acceptance of that truth is immensely clarifying.
Is your board fit for purpose?
A board’s most important task is to ask regularly if it is itself fit for purpose. That requires, above all, a deep sense of self-awareness and metacognition, a skillset no boards seem to be seeking actively in their search for new directors.