Startup Boards eBook: How to Build Your Board
Over the past several months, I’ve published two series of posts on the Bolster blog about Boards. The first series is designed to help CEOs better understand how to build, diversify, and scale their...
View ArticleStartup Boards eBook: How to Succeed in Your First Board Role
In addition to our work on helping CEOs understand board-building best practices, which I posted about last week, I’ve spent the past several months publishing a second series of blog posts to help...
View ArticleExcellent 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 DirectorsMy New Startup Board Mantra – 1:1:1The...
View Article7 Habits of Highly Effective Boards
(This blog post was first published as an article in Entrepreneur Magazine on April 15.) Creating strong boards can help propel a board forward. Weak and ineffective boards hold a company back. As a...
View ArticleA Couple Tweaks to Running Great Board Meetings
I love innovation, and process is no different than product or business model in that regard. I’ve run and attended several hundred board meetings over the years, both those of companies where I’ve...
View ArticleStartup Boards, the book, and also why they matter more than ever these days
My latest book (I’m a co-author along with Brad Feld and Mahendra Ramsinghani), Startup Boards: A Field Guide to Building and Leading an Effective Board of Directors, is now live on Amazon – today is...
View ArticleStartup Boards: VCs and CEOs need to do their jobs!
Was anyone else as appalled as I am by the contents of Connie Loizos’s recent article, Coming out of COVID, investors lose their taste for board meetings? The stories and quotes in the article about...
View ArticleSwoop in, Swoop out
A fellow CEO with whom I’m friendly was venting to me the other day about one of their Board members. They were stunned that the lived experience they have day in, day out running the business wasn’t...
View ArticleCollecting Feedback from Your Board
A friend of mine just emailed me and asked how I collect feedback from the Board after Board meetings. I have a good routine for this which I wrote about a little bit here but have since expanded....
View ArticleBook Short: Boards That Lead
Boards That Lead, by Ram Charan, Dennis Carey, and Michael Useem, was recommended to me by a CEO Coach in the Bolster network, Tim Porthouse, who said he’s been referring it to his clients alongside...
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