Does using Policy Governance mean that all the boards “means” decisions must be negative?
No. Only when the board instructs management with respect to management’s means must it set boundaries rather than be prescriptive. Two categories of board policies address the means of the board rather than of the staff. In these policies, the board can use normal prescriptive language. These two categories are usually called Governance Process and Board-Management Delegation. The idea is that the board can certainly tell itself what to do, but will empower staff safely and better by only saying what it shall not do.
