Face To Face Board Meetings

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Published: October 9, 2009Posted in: Managing Director/CEOTags:
Face To Face Board Meetings

I was talking to the Gotham Gal today about board meetings. She was talking about a board call she had participated on and I asked “why didn’t you do the meeting face to face?”. She said, “you’re right, we should”.

In the past week, I’ve traveled to Ljubljana Slovenia and today to Boulder Colorado to attend board meetings. It’s a lot of travel but I don’t think you can do it any other way. If you are going to be on the board (as opposed to a board observer), I think you have to attend the meetings.

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2009/08/face-to-face-board-meetings.html

Looking someone in the eye and seeing the body language will tell you so much more than a voice on a speakerphone. Being there and spending face time with the team, other than the CEO, is also hugely valuable. And building board chemistry can only be done face to face.

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