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Growing Pains: Making Sure That Your Board Fits Contributed by:
Aarti MadhusudanWednesday, August 22, 2007 (5 years 267 days ago)
I’d like to share a story of my childhood with you. I must have been 12 or 13 – retrospectively a nightmare teenager but of course at the time I thought I was perfectly normal! I woke up one morning all excited about a friend’s party that we had planned on attending for many weeks. So, out came the party wear, the accessories and the shoes – all laid out for the evening. The moment arrived and I just needed to slip on my shoes to leave with my friends who were waiting outside impatiently. To my horror I found that the shoes would not fit anymore. I hadn’t realized that I’d outgrown them. These were my favourite most comfortable pair and I wasn’t going to give up so easily…so I squeezed my feet into them and trotted off to an evening that was filled with all the fun that it had promised – except that with my incredibly painful feet I was not able to enjoy the party as much as I could have – if only better sense prevailed and I had taken the trouble to find a pair of shoes that fit me.
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What Makes Good Boards... Good? Contributed by:
Aarti MadhusudanWednesday, February 07, 2007 (6 years 98 days ago)
I was once doing a session on good governance for a group of chief executives and senior staff and asked one of them to describe the board and its members. The CEO of an organisation said to me, "My board members are like a flock of crows!" Unusual description, I thought, and probed further. He told me this rather interesting story....
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