A colleague at Board Excellence recently published a thought-provoking article which proposed a hypothetical scenario in which the board meeting be streamed live to shareholders. Following the meeting, each shareholder would be asked to assess the board’s collective performance and that of each board member under a number of categories critical to performance and effectiveness, […]

The terms board effectiveness and board performance tended in the past to be associated with, and thought about solely in the context of the annual board evaluation – this is changing, but maybe not as quickly as it should as many boards continue to see the evaluation as a box-ticking exercise. Yes, board evaluation is […]

A debate has continued for many years regarding the title of Company Secretary, not necessarily about whether or not it adequately describes the essence of the role, as anyone who has ploughed that furrow knows that it does not, but more about what the title should be in order to effectively illustrate the essential constituents […]