Dear Dynamic Boards

How Do I Respond To A Chair Who Allows For Minimal Input From The Non-Executive Directors?

For this anonymous challenge, we invited three board members (Monica Chadha, Manju Malhotra and Charlotte Valeur) with experience in non-executive and executive capacities to comment on how they would handle this scenario.

“It’s complicated.” Everyone nods, smiles and moves on. What should I do?

Dear Dynamic Boards, One of the executive directors is clever, charismatic and absolutely on top of their game. The rest of the board think they are great and are slightly in awe. However, the result is that whenever I put forward even slightly challenging questions the response is – “well, it’s VERY complicated…” and the rest of the board nod

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