(And do you know when to change it?) In the boardroom, we often speak about acting in the best interests of the organisation. It sounds straightforward. In practice, it rarely is. Because directors don’t arrive empty-handed. We arrive wearing hats. A professional identity hat shaped by years of experience. A shareholder hat. A stakeholder …
Driving along the highway recently, I noticed something that immediately caught my eye. A ship. Not at sea.Not in a harbour. It wasn’t wrong.It simply looked… out of place. And that is exactly how certain moments in the boardroom feel. There is no dramatic disagreement.No obvious governance breach.No raised voices. And yet — something shifts.A …
The most expensive chair ever sold at auction was Eileen Gray’s “Dragons” armchair(also called Fauteuil Aux Dragon) designed between 1917-1919. https://lnkd.in/d6a4FEV5 This chair was bought for Euro 21.9 million (about US$ 28 million) at Christie’s in Paris in February 2009. It was not made of gold. It was not encrusted with jewels. Its value arguably …
Learning a new language is both fascinating and demanding. It requires curiosity, patience, and a willingness to feel uncomfortable before fluency emerges. The boardroom, too, has its own language—one that signals formality, authority, and process. Phrases such as “through the Chair,” “point of order,” “resolution,” “minutes,” and “proposer and seconder” are part of the grammar …
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There is a powerful line spoken in Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning:“For those we never meet.” Outside the cinema, it feels cinematic. Inside the boardroom, it feels confronting. Because board decisions rarely end with the present moment. They ripple forward—into years, decades, and generations that will never know our names, yet will live with the …