Carolyn Evans and Tanya van der Wall write about deserving trust – including the part where sometimes that trust requires dissent, and breaking ranks in the board room. Corporate governance has been a topic de jour routinely over the last decade or so. Some attempt to shroud it in professional mystery (perhaps to generate the…
Tag: governance
A square is a rectangle but …
Those of us still scarred by primary school maths remember that a square is a rectangle but a rectangle is not a square. And so it goes with decision making, writes Carolyn Evans and Tanya van der Wall, where not all roles in decision making processes are decision making roles. Reviewing past decisions is a crucial…
Coffee on the road … in Aotearoa
We try to be polite about it, and not gloat, but one part of our work that we really love is exploring. Exploring a problem is the best deal in town, and when it comes with a side order of coffee in beautiful places, it is easy to do great work and find a fantastic…
Good governance in the third millennium
Client: Institute of the Sisters of Mercy in Australia This discussion paper was prepared to assist the national leadership group of the Sisters of Mercy in their consideration of governance models which are likely to be sustainable over the coming decades, in the face of “climate change” in their demography. Based on a mathematical model…