Board Surveys’ Post

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Board benchmarking. Single biggest finding over the past 15 years based on more than 500 board reviews is that boards are way more complicated than people think. They are not just five or 10 or even 14, but are remarkable 20 discrete dimensions that defines a board effectiveness. That's a substantial number of elements to get right, and each one is important, a single misstep or neglect of one or two of these dimensions. And have a devastating impact for the board and consequently for the organisation. It's interesting that it took us 15 years and the help of Deakin University to uncover what we now see as the bleeding obvious.