Excellent Resource for Effective Board Leadership
I’ve written a lot about Boards this past year related to Bolster’s work in helping founders/CEOs build great boards:
- The New Way to Scale a Board of Directors
- My New Startup Board Mantra – 1:1:1
- The Startup Ecosystem Needs More Independent Board Members – That’s the Clearest Path to Having Better and More Diverse Boards
- Startup Boards eBook: How to Build Your Board
- Startup Boards eBook: How to Succeed in Your First Board Role
But more recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about Board effectiveness, as I’ve been working with Brad Feld and Mahendra Ramsinghani on a second edition of Startup Boards, which will be published in mid-2022. And in the middle of our feverish writing and editing, Reid Hoffman sent Brad a great document which I want to amplify here:
Some of these rituals are more important than others (or at least more widely applicable), but they’re all worth reading. I am definitely going to start incorporating some version of the “Dory and Pulse” ritual into my meetings to make sure we’re covering everything that each director wants to cover in meetings (or answer smaller things ahead of time).
Thanks to Reid for this great contribution to the world of Startup Boards.