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succession planning
Management succession planning is a challenge for boards. We know because they tell us. In Boardspan's 2023 Board Performance Benchmark Report, we ask boards to rate their performance in nearly 60 board governance topics. Every year that we’ve collected benchmarks, succession planning has been the N...
Governance Planning: A Holistic Roadmap for Better Board Performance What is Governance Planning and why is it important? Let’s look at a Tale of Two Boards:
Recruitment – it’s part art and part science. And the success of your search for a new board member (or executive) should be measured on both the quality of your experience and your satisfaction with the results. So who you work with and how they run the search process matters, significantly. Like m...
Hard as it may be to believe, most chief executive officers today receive their annual feedback in the form of a bonus check. Maybe it’s a great bonus. Maybe it’s less than expected. Either way, when the chair of the company’s board compensation committee swings by to drop off an envelope before rus...
Every board wants its CEO to thrive--and there’s one simple thing all boards can do to improve the odds: Offer FEEDBACK. It’s surprising how many boards expect top performance from their executives, but only give feedback when they have a specific disagreement or concern about performance metrics. T...