What links coronavirus, leadership, women on boards, climate change and disinformation? Read this week's links to find out.

Women as CEOs, digital native children as designers of the world being eaten by software, work and AI, and ok, since we are all remote-working thanks to coronavirus, a reflection on the loneliness it may precipitate for some and some excellent hacks for getting it right all feature in this week's picks.

Governance models while necessary are insufficient consideration in the face of emergencies; the organisation (or a nation) fundamentally need to have competence, resources, and skills, built in peace times.

Small data, protecting kids online, metabolite surveillance, and tech nihilism are this week’s picks.

Startup founders make some common mistakes when they seek to build boards and good governance for their companies. They are preventable and fixable.

Startups have a governance problem but it is solvable with good strategic thinking and knowledge of what to expect from board directors.

Employers need to be proactive about addressing the challenges of grief, bereavement and trauma faced by employees.

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.

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.

Small businesses need good governance for financial and social sustainability, but are not always able or willing to build governance capacity or brook independent challenge.