Boards are so different. Isn a “one size fits all” model absurd?
Policy Governance was originally designed as an integration of characteristics that all governing boards have in common, such as accountability for their distribution of authority to others. The intent was to find a universally applicable set of principles upon which each unique board could develop its own governance. This is the same kind of “one size fits all” as represented by an anatomy chart or a scientific theory. When the fundamental truths are discovered, we can hold them constant while making uncountable variations built on them. One example is the marvelous variety in bridges even though they are all built on the same engineering principles.
