Governance Basics

Welcome. This is a course intended to help you build, create or improve a board of directors so that it adds value to your business

You should know there is a large ecosystem of different kinds of boards of directors and corporate governance and I have been around all of

We’re working on how to build a value-added board. And I want to start by making sure you understand that this is not an easy

I’ve done a lot of surveys with boards to discern where their time is invested. Typically, boards tend to like the oversight and hindsight components

When you start off a business, like a small startup, there’s just you, your management team, possibly a couple of angel investors who are helping

If you’ve got your advisory board, you can migrate it into a more fiduciary board or another kind of structure on your own. Or, if

In a previous post, I described ideas for evolving your advisory board into a fiduciary board or other kind of board structure. And if you

I want to turn now to the role of the chair. I don’t know if you have seen it, but there’s a wonderful TED Talk

In summary, I just want to say that I believe deeply that a board — whether it’s a sounding board, an advisory board or a

In this post, I’m going to talk about joint ventures and alliances. They too have governance structures, and it may be the way you choose