225. What might *I* do to make things a bit better?

This season, every episode of OMG focuses on a question that directors really need to answer.

OMG is written, produced, narrated and scored by Matt Fullbrook.

 

TRANSCRIPT:

Question #23: What might I do to make things a bit better? Conventional definitions of corporate governance frame it as something that exists: a system of processes and structures that promote transparency and accountability or some other such nonsense. Nonsense because it leaves us with the impression that corporate governance isn’t something that actual people actually do. There’s a similar problem with thinking of corporate governance only as a thing that belongs to the board, as a whole. As in, nobody other than the whole board collectively might have any impact on corporate governance. A weird implication of that framing is that it obscures the fact that individual directors matter. Personally, I believe that an individual director or senior executive can cause good governance to happen. This won’t surprise anyone who’s followed this show for a long time, but when a single person is intentional about the conditions that affect our decisions, that person is literally doing good governance. Just them, on their own, doing good governance. So, what might *you* do to make things a bit better?