{"id":61723,"date":"2011-10-06T17:01:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/customerthink.com\/managing_board_relations\/"},"modified":"2011-10-06T17:01:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-07T00:01:00","slug":"managing_board_relations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/customerthink.com\/managing_board_relations\/","title":{"rendered":"Managing Board Relations"},"content":{"rendered":"
Given that many of you have just completed your Q3 board meetings, or are prepping for Q4, I thought it would make sense to address the who, what, when, why, and how of board relations. Over the years I’ve met more than a few CEOs who paid little or no attention to their board of directors, only to find themselves wondering what went wrong as they were being ushered out the door prior to the expiration of their employment agreement. As a CEO, your board can be one of your greatest allies. Conversely, and just as easily, they can be a significant contributor to your undoing resulting in an early and unnecessary demise. In today’s post I’ll deal with a skill set that all successful CEOs excel at…managing board relations.<\/p>\n
What’s interesting to me is that of all the constituencies that CEOs must deal with, the relationship with a board of directors is among the easiest to manage. So this begs the question, why do so many CEOs blow it when it comes to managing their board? From my perspective, CEOs who fail in their attempts to coalesce with the board usually do so as a result of being either arrogant or naive. The odd thing is, whether through arrogance or ignorance, the results are often the same. These misguided CEOs often just ignore the board as if they didn’t even exist until they see a board meeting scheduled, or receive an angry phone call or e-mail.<\/p>\n
The simple truth of the matter is that savvy CEOs see their board as a strategic asset, and not a liability to be avoided. The following six tips will help you become skilled at managing board relations, which will lessen your burdens, extend your shelf-life, and improve your performance:<\/p>\n
Please use the comments section below to share any other tips for working more effectively with the board. Thanks in advance…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Given that many of you have just completed your Q3 board meetings, or are prepping for Q4, I thought it would make sense to address the who, what, when, why, and how of board relations. Over the years I’ve met more than a few CEOs who paid little or no attention to their board of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7322,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[128,83],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/customerthink.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61723"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/customerthink.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/customerthink.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/customerthink.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7322"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/customerthink.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/customerthink.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/customerthink.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/customerthink.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/customerthink.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}