When I walk into most organizations, I see the same thing: applause for a new strategy, nods around the table, a thick printed plan, and then, silence for the next twelve months. That, my friend, is theatre. Another word for time wasting.
Effective boards shift focus from approvals to outcomes.

Approving the strategy is not the job done. It is where the real work begins. But too many boards treat strategy like a gala dinner, show up, clap, and go home. Meanwhile, execution dies in the corridors of power. Read more >>

“Execution is not EXCO’s private headache. It is the board’s ongoing responsibility..”

During a governance review at a top-tier insurer, the board chair routinely met department heads without informing the CEO.

Meanwhile, the CEO made sweeping HR decisions without board knowledge. Staff were confused. Executives were disoriented.

The board? Powerless. The insurer lost market share and senior talent. When Chair and CEO roles blur, an organisation drifts rudderless, leaderless, and exposed. Read more >>

At a steel processing plant in Nairobi, the CEO invited the board to tour a newly commissioned mill, installed just six months earlier under their approved “five-year strategy.”

What the directors saw shocked them: idle machines, rust already forming, and workers idle. The market had shifted, and China had dumped cheaper steel into the region, collapsing demand. Read more >>

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This thought-provoking book offers an incisive examination of corporate governance from both a historical and contemporary point of view…I highly recommend it for your useful and sustainable leadership benefit” – Michael Mugabi, Former President, Institute of Corporate Governance of Uganda.