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Boardroom Snapshot: The Harmony That Hid the Risk (opens the original)
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This experience-based illustration draws on my work with Board Chairs and directors. The setting, dialogue and identifying details have been adapted to protect confidentiality and clarify the governance issue.ContextA financial services Board is reviewing a digital transformation program that has exceeded budget for the third consecutive quarter.The CIO’s presentation is reassuring. A new vendor has been onboarded, agile sprints are underway and the slides emphasize “positive momentum.” Director
Boardroom Snapshot: The Silence That Shifted the Room (opens the original)
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This experience-based illustration draws on my work with Board Chairs and directors. The setting, dialogue and identifying details have been adapted to protect confidentiality and clarify the governance issue.ContextA mid-sized energy company’s Board is meeting to approve a major capital project, a lithium extraction partnership in South America. Management has presented a confident case: strong IRR, ESG-aligned messaging and local partnerships “secured.” The directors nod along. Questions are r
Stigmergy: The Governance Idea You May Already Be Using Without Knowing It (opens the original)
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There is a concept from complexity science that most directors will probably never encounter in a governance program. It is called stigmergy, and despite the unfamiliar name, there is a good chance it is already operating in your boardroom. Understanding it can help explain why some boards seem to get progressively better at making difficult decisions, while others repeatedly revisit the same issues, rediscover the same lessons and depend heavily on the institutional memories of a handful of exp
Your Board Has Excellent Directors. But Do You Have an Excellent Board? (opens the original)
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Most Boards take director quality seriously. They recruit people with substantial executive experience, financial expertise, industry knowledge, governance credentials and professional judgment. They construct skills matrices, identify capability gaps and periodically refresh Board composition to ensure the right expertise is represented around the table.All of that matters, but there is an assumption buried inside this approach that deserves considerably more attention. We tend to assume that i
When Good Audits Produce Bad Assurance: The Risk of Internal Audit Standing Still (opens the original)
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In the first two articles in this series, I argued that internal audit needs to evolve to reflect the reality of organizations operating as complex adaptive systems. The first proposed five principles for doing so. The second considered whether that evolution could occur without sacrificing the independence, objectivity, evidence and professional skepticism that have long distinguished internal audit.There is another question that deserves attention, particularly from boards and audit committees
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