Our philosophy is that the most salient predictor of success or failure in a business is the alchemy of personalities in the boardroom.
This alchemy is even more important than the business strategy or investment thesis, because even the most carefully designed plans can go awry. An aligned board will weather these storms, enabling the business to emerge stronger than before. But if trouble strikes a poorly aligned board, chaos can ensue.
Our focus with boards is inflection points, those moments of significant change in business, which can disequilibrate boardroom balance. These momentous change events include:
- Shifts in board composition
- Actions by activist investors
- Dramatic market swings
- Succession
- Significant pivot
- Acquisition
- Death of a key figure
- The emergence of internal conflict
When inflection points arise, they often bring boardroom misalignments into stark relief. As such, they are opportunities masquerading as threats, because the focus that such events bring creates an opening to secure alignment.
In other instances, the shock of the triggering event is so abrupt that even harmonized boards are significantly disrupted.
These perturbations can be an ideal time to strengthen a board’s alignment, rendering it more powerful than it was prior to the inflection point.
Our work with boards optimizes the collaborative configuration during these moments of transition, taking into account the unique cultural attributes of the business.
We’ve worked with boards in dozens of countries on every habitable continent. Let us know how we can help yours.
Our focus with boards is inflection points, those moments of significant change in business, which can disequilibrate boardroom balance. These momentous change events include:
- Shifts in board composition
- Actions by activist investors
- Dramatic market swings
- Succession
- Significant pivot
- Acquisition
- Death of a key figure
- The emergence of internal conflict
When inflection points arise, they often bring boardroom misalignments into stark relief. As such, they are opportunities masquerading as threats, because the focus that such events bring creates an opening to secure alignment.
In other instances, the shock of the triggering event is so abrupt that even harmonized boards are significantly disrupted.
These perturbations can be an ideal time to strengthen a board’s alignment, rendering it more powerful than it was prior to the inflection point.
Our work with boards optimizes the collaborative configuration during these moments of transition, taking into account the unique cultural attributes of the business.
We’ve worked with boards in dozens of countries on every habitable continent. Let us know how we can help yours.
