How productive are executive sessions?
Executive sessions are a critical vehicle for directors to air their feelings, test their hypotheses, and reach a group viewpoint on items that really matter. The board can make a CEO more productive-or it can dilute the power of the CEO. Is the board coming to a consensus viewpoint on the handful of most important issues? How accurate and precise is the feedback given to the CEO? How constructive and useful is the feedback? What has been the CEO’s response and follow-through? In pondering the 10 questions, a director who is not completely comfortable with the answers should bring up anything that troubles him in executive session. The board might want to raise the importance of a given issue on the agenda and increase the depth of dialogue on the topic. Once these 10 questions have been answered, and the answers have been discussed within the board, they should be directed to management as well. The process of interacting with management over the answers can be illuminating. Discussio
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