Tag: transit board capability building
Are Our Hands Really Tied That Tightly?
“Look, our hands are tied. We’ve got to make do with the people they send us.” This is what the CEO of a transportation authority said in a workshop on board capability building I was conducting a couple of years 
ago. I’d made the pretty obvious point early in the meeting that boards of directors weren’t an abstract organizational entity; rather, they were living, breathing people, and that the quality of a board’s governing decisions were heavily dependent on the particular people making up the board at any given time. Sure, I acknowledged, there were other important factors, like a … Read the rest
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