Removing Underperforming Board Members

An organization that is highly effective long-term has a smart and healthy board. This requires that appropriate people are sitting on the board. One bad apple can spoil the whole bushel. If you are serving your organization well, you won’t let one bad board member cripple your progress.
Too many organizations rely on [...]

Board Term Limits

I recently heard David Barton, an expert on cooperatives from Kansas State University, speak on board term limits. Since I see the downside as well as some benefits of organizations having term limits for their board members, I was particularly interested in his comments. David Barton shared that recent research on governance practices [...]