How much of your last board meeting was spent discussing a future your competitors have not yet created, and how much was spent explaining why last quarter happened? That question usually earns a smile. Then the room becomes very quiet.

I still laughs at one particular board retreat. Walking into the room with all the confidence that years of governance consulting can sometimes create, it seemed obvious that the directors wanted help refining strategy.

Two hours later, after listening carefully, it became clear that everyone had become exceptionally good at analysing reports about yesterday while almost nobody had asked where the business would be five years from now. The embarrassing part was not that the board had missed the point.

The embarrassing part was believing, for the first twenty minutes, that the discussion was heading somewhere strategic. It was not. It was simply history wearing an expensive suit. READ MORE

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I have been close to power long enough to see all celebrations and frustrations up close in black and white. “I am tired of approving the same resolution three times.”

Those were the first words the Board Chair said as we settled into the governance review. The annual strategy retreat had been impressive. The board had debated for hours, challenged management, approved bold initiatives and congratulated itself on the quality of its discussions.

Twelve months later, almost every strategic decision had returned to the board with a different title but the same unresolved problem.

The directors looked surprised. The executive team looked exhausted. The shareholders remained unaware that the real problem was not strategy. It was board behaviour.

That conversation reminded me of what I now call The Office Whiteboard Syndrome. READ MORE

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