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With 20 years of experience as a tech CEO, and 8+ years of experience as a public company board director, I’ve seen and experienced the good, the bad and sometimes the ugly of board meetings. So much ...

One of the more popular attendees at customer advisory board (CAB) meetings is the customer speaker, or more accurately, customer “session owner” as they will (hopefully) do much more than merely ...

Since making the transition to venture capital, I’ve learned firsthand that a critical part of investor involvement and due diligence involves serving on boards of directors. I quickly realized that ...

For far too many CEOs, board meetings are a cause of stress. They send their teams into a frenzy pulling together materials, there are late-night fire drills of prep sessions, and the meetings feel ...

Association board meetings don’t have to be three hours long. However, we often hear from clients that each board meeting takes several hours. Here are some hints to streamline the meeting process.

If your virtual meeting is little more than a series of canned PowerPoint presentations, attendees will get bored, drop off and will not attend future ones. With the pandemic waning by the day, ...

Someone once told me, “The most successful salesman is a confident salesman.” I have found this to be extremely accurate. Confidence results from the absence of doubt; such absence of doubt comes from ...